RPC IX, 815

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IX
Number 815
Province Phrygia-Caria
Subprovince Conventus of Apamea
Region Phrygia
City Apamea
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Trajan Decius (Augustus)
Magistrate Stratonikianos (panegyriarch)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Γ Μ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΔΕΚ[ΙΟϹ ΕΥϹ?]
Nominative Imperator Gaius Messius Traianus Decius Pius
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Decius, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΠΑΡΑ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΙΑΝΟΥ ΠΑΝΗΓΥΡΙΑΡΧ, ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ
Reverse design Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Axis 12
Reference Leypold 1467
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same rev. die.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B KM p. 213, no. 27
2 2     ✸ Afyon: 726
3 3     V-ON Leypold 1467 = Rauch 10, 9 June 1972, lot 104 = Schulman NY, 6 June 1969 (Mabbott coll.), lot 1886