RPC III, 1964

 

Image of specimen #32

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1964
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Magistrate Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator (proconsul) ; Rufus (strategos)
Dating AD 98/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΝΕΡΟΥΑΝ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΝ
Edition Αὐτοκράτορα Νερούαν Τραϊανόν Αὐ(τοκράτορα) Νερούαν Τραϊανόν
Translation for Emperor Nerva Trajan
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΖΜ ΑϹΙ ΦΟΥϹΚΩ ΑΝΘΥ, ϹΤΡ ΡΟΥ (in field, l. and r.)
Edition Ζμυρναίων Ἀσίας Φούσκῳ ἀνθυπάτῳ στρατηγοῦ Ρούφου Ζμ(υρναίων) Ἀσί(ας) Φούσκῳ ἀνθυ(πάτῳ) στρ(ατηγοῦ) Ρού(φου)
Translation of the Smyrnaeans, to Fuscus proconsul of Asia, of Rufus strategos
Reverse design Demeter as Asia veiled standing left, holding ears of corn in her right hand, cornucopia in her left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 11.55 g
Axis 6
Reference Klose XIII, 1–25, Stumpf 538
Specimens 32 (1 in the core collections)
Note Klose 1: now L 1979-1-1-1780; Klose 13: now G SNG 1495; Klose 15/1: now G SNG 1496; Klose 16/3: P 2537A; Klose 17: now G SNG 1497; Klose 18/1: NY 1947.97.428; Klose 23: A 5412γ

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B Klose 25/2 and Taf. 32, R 25
2 2 –31     See Klose 1–24, 25/2
32 32     ✸ Naville Numismatics 53, 3 Nov. 2019, lot 195