RPC III, 3656

 

Image of specimen #46

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3656
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Orichalcum coinage struck in Rome for circulation in Syria
Dating AD 98/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ
Edition Αὐτοκρ(άτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Νέρ(ουας) Τραϊανὸς Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ϹΥΡΙΑϹ
Edition κοινὸν Συρίας
Translation the koinon of Syria
Reverse design veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche (Atargatis ?), right
Metal brass
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 4.89 g
Axis 6
Reference Wruck 179; CRS 409/13; McAlee 500
Specimens 51 (29 in the core collections)
Die-links 43: same obv. die as 3657/6, 8–10.
Note These die links were noted by McAlee (p. 212, n. 370). On the interpretation of the reverse as Atargatis, see M. Bar, SNG Belgique, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, La collections de bronzes grecs de Marc Bar (Brussels, 2007), p. 239, 877; 3653/46: reverse legend ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Β altered to ΚΟΙΝΟΝ CΥΡΙΑC: see B. Woytek, ‘Die Cutters At Work: New Light on the Coinage Struck for the Syrian Koinon’, AJN 23 (2011), pp. 153-67.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 1 (and pl. XIV, 6)
2 2     L BMC 2
3 3     L BMC 3
4 4     O: Douce
5 5     O: (Christ Church)
6 6     C McClean 9362 and pl. 343.12
7 7     C SNG Leake 5887
8 8     G SNG 2586
9 9     G SNG 2587
10 10     G SNG 2588
11 11     P: 15
12 12     P: 16
13 13     P: 17
14 14     P: 18
15 15     P: 19
16 16     P: 19a
17 17     P Wa 7278
18 18     Brussels SNG Bar 877
19 19     Cop SNG 196
20 20     Amsterdam: S 2944
21 21     Amsterdam: S 2945
22 22     Amsterdam: S 2946
23 23     Amsterdam: S 2947
24 24     Amsterdam: S 2948
25 25     Amsterdam: S 2949
26 26     Amsterdam: S 2950
27 27     Bern: Righetti 1943
28 28     Mu SNG 352
29 29     Mu SNG 353
30 30     Mu SNG 354
31 31     Mu SNG 355
32 32     Mu SNG 356
33 33     Mu SNG 357
34 34     B: 5125
35 35     B: I-B
36 36     B: Fox
37 37     B: Löbb.
38 38     B
39 39     Milan SNG 451
40 40     Milan SNG 452
41 41     A: BG NP 3451
42 42     Lindgren I, 1878
43 43     McAlee coll. (this coin illustrated by McAlee under 500/1 p. 213)
44 44     McAlee coll (this coin illustrated by McAlee under 500/2 p. 213)
45 45     Elsen 97, 13 Sept. 2008, lot 501
46 46     ✸ CNG EA 200, McAlee coll., 3 Dec. 2008, lot 265
47 47     Jacquier Katalog 36, Sommer 2009, lot 320
48 48     Luis Correa de Lago coll.
49 49     Dresden AAC 1714
50 50     Freiburg: 12308
51 51     Münster: M 1428