RPC IX, 679

 

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Coin type
Volume IX
Number 679
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Miletus
Region Ionia
City Samos
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Trajan Decius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΔΕΚΙΟϹ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Decius
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Decius, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ϹΑΜΙΩΝ
Reverse design Tyche standing left, wearing kalathos, holding cult statue of Samian Hera and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 6
Reference BMC 343–4
Specimens 17 (14 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3, 7–9, 11: same pair of dies. 2, 12–13, 15: same pair of dies. 4–6, 10, 14, 16: same pair of dies. 1–16: same obv. die as 585/1–4 (Colophon), 586/1 (Colophon), 594/1 (Colophon), 648/1–3 (Hypaepa), 649/1–4 (Hypaepa), 650/1–2 (Hypaepa), 651/1–2 (Hypaepa), 671/1, 672/1–6, 673/1–7, 9–11, 13–22, 674/1, 3–5, 677/1–8. 2, 12–13, 15: same rev. die as 688/1–5.
Note See also no. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3797 for a smaller denomination of the same description
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 343
2 2     L BMC 344
3 3     L: G.0843
4 4     ✸ P: 3526
5 5     B: Fox
6 6     B: Löbb.
7 7     C: 81-1992
8 8     Cop SNG 1780 = Kraft p. 133, no. 127c
9 9     G SNG 1820
10 10     Mu
11 11     NY: 1944.100.47596
12 12     O
13 13     V: GR 18162
14 14     V: GR 18163
15 15     V-ON Leypold 778
16 16     Peus 384, 2 Nov. 2005, lot 849
17 17     Freiburg: 246