RPC III, 1818

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1818
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Lydia
City Thyatira
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Magistrate Quintus Fabius Postuminus (proconsul)
Issue Q. Fabius Postuminus
Dating AD 111/12
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑ-ΝΟΝ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙΚΟΝ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτορα) Νέρ(ουαν) Τραϊανὸν Γερ(μανικὸν) Δακικόν
Translation for Emperor Nerva Trajan Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΑΝΘΥ ΠΟϹΤΟΥΜΙΝΩ, ΘΥΑ/ΤΕΙ/ΡΗ/ΝΩΝ (in field, l. and r.)
Edition ἀνθυ(πάτῳ) Ποστουμίνῳ Θυατειρηνῶν
Translation to the proconsul Postuminus, of the Thyatirans
Reverse design Apollo naked standing right, holding a serpent in his right hand, his left elbow resting on a column
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 13.07 g
Reference Stumpf 559, and 549 corr.
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same pair of dies.
Note Original note: "Weiser (p. 282) is right to state that Stumpf 549 and 559 were struck from the same pair of dies. Therefore there is no coin of Q. Fabius Postuminus procos., AD 111/2, struck at Thyatira." However, re-examination of the L coin in 2022 shows that Stumpf's reading for 559 was essentially correct, and both coins can now be reattributed to the proconsulship of Postuminus. Thus, there are no coins for L. Dasumius Hadrianus, whom W.Eck ('L. Dasumius Hadrianus, Konsul und Prokonsul von Asia in traianischer Zeit: ein wissen-schaftliches Phantom', ZPE 223 (2022), pp. 219-24), has now shown to be a fiction. However Eck suggested the reading might be ΤΟΥΛΛΟΥ, as on RPC 1819 - but that reading is probably incorrect.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Mu SNG 624 = Stumpf 549 Taf. XVII, 4
2 2     ✸ L BMC 73 and Pl. XXXI, 2 = Stumpf 559, with Taf. XVII, 10