RPC IX, 1487

 

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Coin type
Volume IX
Number 1487
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Anazarbus
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Herennia Etruscilla (Augusta)
Issue Year ΘΞϹ = 269
Dating AD 250/1
Obverse inscription ΕΡΕΝΝΙΑΝ ΕΤΡΟΥϹΚΙΛΛΑ ϹΕ
Nominative Herennia Etruscilla Augusta
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Etruscilla, right, on crescent
Reverse inscription ΑΝΑΖΑΡΒΟΥ ΜΗΤΡ, Γ Γ, ΕΤ ΙΕΡ ΟΛΥΥΜ (sic) ΘΞϹ
Reverse design nude Dionysus (youthful) seated left, head right, on panther lying, right, holding thyrsus, right hand on head
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference Ziegler, Anazarbos, 766
Specimens 8 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–8: same pair of dies. 1–8: same obv. die as 1484/1–4, 1485/1–29, 1488/1–14, 1489/1, 1490/1.
Note All coins recorded are from the same dies. For die links, see Ziegler, Anazarbos, pp. 337-9
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B
2 2     ✸ NY: 2000.8.7
3 3     P-AIBL Fonds Robert 881
4 4     A-KIKPE SNG Pfalz 249
5 5     A-KIKPE SNG Pfalz 250
6 6     Ziegler 1139
7 7     Ziegler, Anazarbos, 766.3
8 8     CGT coll.