RPC III, 3890

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3890
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Trajan
Issue Year 238
Dating AD 112/13
Obverse inscription
Obverse design turreted and veiled head of Tyche, right; to left, palm
Reverse inscription ΗΛΣ, ΜΗ ΤΥΡ (to r.)
Reverse design Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); Astarte standing left on galley
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 12 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference Rouvier 2254
Specimens 10 (8 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1992.54.1216
2 2     NY: 1992.54.1217
3 3     NY: 1944.100.73007
4 4     NY: 1944.100.73006
5 5     NY: 1944.100.73005
6 6     L BMC 308
7 7     Cop SNG 357
8 8     Beirut-AUB: 171
9 9     Beirut-AUB: 172
10 10     NY: 1944.100.73004