RPC VII.2, 2864

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 2864
Province Pontus
Region Pontus
City Trapezus
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus)
Issue Year ΡΟƐ = 175
Dating AD 238/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΝ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΤΡΑΠΕΖΟΥΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΤ ΡΟΕ
Reverse design Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia; star in field to right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Axis 1, 6, 7, 12
Reference Rec 46–7, 52 corr.; Wojan, Trapézonte 119, 121–4
Specimens 13 (7 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 6–8, 11, 13: same obv. die as 2863/2, 2866/2, 2870/3, 5, 8. 2: same obv. die as 2861A/1, 2862A/1, 2863/3, 2867/2–3, 2870/11.
Note While some specimens clearly show the date ΡΟƐ (coin https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/102059), the reading is more ambiguous on others (Wojan 119), as the reverse die seems to have been reused for coins of year 180 (ΡΟΘ, see type https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/19528 for Gordian III and https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/19531 for Tranquillina). Rec made a distinction between Tyche standing r. (Rec 46) or l. (Rec 47, in trade, no ill., of which no clear example could be found).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1979,0101.1205 Wojan 119.d
2 2     P: 1409 SNG 1964 = Wojan 123.a = Rec 46, ex coll. Grand Duc
3 3     B: 18272764, 1847/7911 Wojan 119.a
4 4     B: 18272766, Löbb. Wojan 119.b = Rec 52 corr.
5 5     B: 18272765, 1874/56 Wojan 121.a
6 6     NY: 1974.226.39 Wojan 122a
7 7     V: GR 15155 Wojan 124.a = Rec 52 corr.
8 8     Bern: N/82.593 SNG Righetti 593 = Kricheldorf 31, Feb. 1977, lot 104 = Wojan 119.c
9 9     Warsaw: 84276 Wojan 119.e
10 10     Arabat Spit hoard (Crimea) = K. Myzgin, 'Roman provincial coins from the Arabat Spit', VII International Numismatic Symposium «Pontic Money-Changer: Money of the Local Market (Simferopol, 2020), pp. 147-52, no. 5
11 11     Found in Ukraine, info K. Myzgin
12 12     ✸ Private coll.
13 13     Schulman NY, 6 June 1969 (Mabbott coll.), lot 1044 = Cahn 71, 14 Oct. 1931, lot 768 = Wojan 122.b