RPC IX, 593


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Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/593 json ttl rdf xml
Volume	IX
Number	593
Province	Asia
Subprovince	Conventus of Ephesus
Region	Ionia
City	Colophon
Reign	Trajan Decius
Person (obv.)	Herennius Etruscus (Caesar)
Magistrate	Phl Agathoclès (strategos and ‘priest of Apollo’)
Obverse inscription	ΚΥ ƐΡ ƐΤΡ ΜƐ ΔƐΚΙΟϹ ΚΑΙ
Nominative	Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius Caesar
Obverse design	bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Etruscus, r., seen from front
Reverse inscription	ƐΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΦΛ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛƐΟΥϹ ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ
Reverse design	half nude Homer seated r., holding an open scroll
Metal	Æ
Average diameter	29 mm
Axis	11
Specimens	1 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links	1: same obv. die as 591/1–2, 592/1–5. 1: same rev. die as 590/1.

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			Yale: 2004.6.2776		29	10.23	11		Show