RPC IX, 1533

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IX
Number 1533
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Flaviopolis
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Herennius Etruscus (Caesar) ; Hostilian (Caesar)
Issue Year ΖΟΡ = 177
Dating AD 250/1
Obverse inscription Κ Ɛ Ɛ ΜƐϹϹΙ ΔƐΚΙΟϹ ΓΑ ΟΥΟϹ ΜƐ ΚΥΙΝΤΟϹ
Nominative Caesares Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius (et) Gaius Hostilianus Messius Quintus
Obverse design bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Etruscus, r., seen from rear, confronting bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Hostilian, l., seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΦΛΑΟΥΙΟΠΟΛƐΙΤⲰΝ ƐΤ ΖΟΡ
Reverse design Dioscuri standing facing each other, clasping hands, each wearing pileus and holding spear
Metal Æ
Average diameter 26 mm
Axis 12
Reference SNG Pfälzer 519
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–7: same pair of dies.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B KM p. 446, no. 1
2 2     ✸ NY: 1944.100.53264
3 3     Bern: Righetti 1557
4 4     CNG MBS 58, 19 Sept. 2001, lot 948 = CNG 42, 29–30 May 1997, lot 1038 = Lanz 76, 18 May 1995, lot 758
5 5     Gemini VI, 10 Jan. 2010, lot 862
6 6     Lindgren III, A835a
7 7     A-KIKPE SNG Pfalz 519