RPC III, 2187

 

Image of specimen #10

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2187
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Alabanda
Region Caria
City Rhodes
Reign Uncertain
Issue Coinage without imperial portrait
Dating Nerva/Trajan
Obverse inscription
Obverse design radiate head of Helios, right
Reverse inscription ΡΟΔΙΩΝ ΔΙΔΡΑΧΜΟΝ
Edition Ῥοδίων διδραχμόν
Translation of the Rhodians, didrachm
Reverse design Female figure in long chiton standing facing beneath canopy supported either side by flying Nike; left and right thymiaterion
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 18.34 g
Axis 7, 12
Reference BMC 399
Specimens 10 (4 in the core collections)
Note For discussion of the reverse type, see F. Imhoof-Blumer, Nomisma 8 (1913), pp. 9-11; A. Laumonier, Les cultes indigènes en Carie (Paris, 1958), pp. 680-1
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 399
2 2     G SNG 1894
3 3     Cop SNG 891
4 4     Stockholm
5 5     Bologna
6 6     B: 18255595, Fox
7 7     RHJA coll. (ex Giessener Münzhandlung 16, 20–21 Mar. 1980, lot 408; NFA IX, 10 Dec. 1980, lot 277)
8 8     RHJA coll. (ex Gibbons FPL 35, 1979, lot 16; Birkler and Waddell 2, 11 Dec. 1980, lot 180; Glendining 9 June 1982, lot 206)
9 9     CNG MBS 57, 4 Apr. 2001, lot 816
10 10     ✸ ArtCoins Roma 7, 20–21 May 2013, lot 268