RPC IX, 972

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IX
Number 972
Province Lycia-Pamphylia
Region Pisidia
City Cremna
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Herennia Etruscilla (Augusta)
Obverse inscription EREN ETRVSCILLA AVG
Edition <H>eren(nia) Etruscilla Aug(usta)
Translation Herennia Etruscilla Augusta
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Etruscilla, right, on crescent
Reverse inscription COL IVL AVG FEL CREMNA
Edition col(onia) Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Fel(ix) Cremna
Translation the Augustan colony of Julia Felix, Cremna
Reverse design eagle standing right, spreading wings, with three busts above; from left to right: bare-headed and draped bust of Hostilian, right; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Decius, right; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Etruscus, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 17.66 g
Axis 1, 6, 12
Reference vA Pisidien II, 1464–73
Specimens 14 (5 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–14: same pair of dies.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1965,1204.1 vA Pisidien II, 1466
2 2     ✸ P: Y 28657.2, Seyrig vA Pisidien II, 1464, pl. 32 = SNG 1517
3 3     B: I-B vA Pisidien II, 1473
4 4     V: GR 18930 vA Pisidien II, 2270
5 5     V: GR 18931 vA Pisidien II, 2271
6 6     Boston: 62.557 vA Pisidien II, 1472
7 7     Boston: 63.889 Hesperia Art Bulletin XXV, p. 113 = vA Pisidien II, 1471
8 8     Winterthur vA Pisidien II, 1468
9 9     CNG 35, 20 Sept. 1995, lot 1110 = Lindgren III, 698
10 10     CNG Triton VIII, 11 Jan. 2005, lot 777 = vA Pisidien II, 1465 = ex M. Price coll.
11 11     Finarte 995, 26 Nov. 1996, lot 1232 = M&M Basel 41, 18 June 1970, lot 525 = vA Pisidien II, 1470
12 12     Schulman NY, 6 June 1969 (Mabbott coll.), lot 2056 = vA Pisidien II, 1469
13 13     UBS 83, 8 Sept. 2009, lot 331
14 14     SNG vA 5112 = Auctiones AG 5, 2 Dec. 1975, lot 169 = vA Pisidien II, 1465