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IX, 726
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/726
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Volume
IX
Number
726
Province
Asia
Subprovince
Conventus of Sardis
Region
Lydia
City
Maeonia
Reign
Trajan Decius
Person (obv.)
Trajan Decius (Augustus)
Magistrate
Aurelius Apphianos II, also known as the Athenian (first archon for the second time and stephanephoros)
Obverse inscription
Α Κ Γ Μ Κ ΔΕΚΙΟϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ
Nominative
Imperator Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Decius Traianus
Obverse design
laureate and cuirassed bust of Decius, r., seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass
Reverse inscription
ƐΠ ΑΥΡ ΑΠΦΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΚƐ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΥ ΑΡΧ Α ΚΑΙ ϹΤΕΦΑΝΗ, ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ
Reverse design
Dionysus holding thyrsus and Ariadne holding branch and grapes, both seated in biga drawn by panthers, r.; above, Eros flying r., holding torch
Metal
Æ
Average diameter
39 mm
Axis
7, 12
Specimens
3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links
1–3: same pair of dies. 1–3: same obv. die as 725/1–3.
Specimens of this coin type
Number
Number
Obverse
Reverse
Museum
Bibliography
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Note
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1
1
✸
P: 612A
38
26.35
7
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2
2
Yale: 2008.83.132
38
23.31
12
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3
3
CNG 50, 23 June 1999, lot 1092
40
24.41
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