RPC IX, 1368

 

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Coin type
Volume IX
Number 1368
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Tarsus
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Herennia Etruscilla (Augusta)
Obverse inscription ΑΝΝΙΑΝ ΑΙΤΡΟΥϹΚΙΛΛΑΝ ϹΕ
Nominative Herennia Etruscilla Augusta
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Etruscilla, right; crescent at shoulders
Reverse inscription ΤΑΡϹΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ, Α Μ Κ Γ Β
Reverse design Apollo Lykeios standing on omphalos, facing, head, right, holding two wolves by forelegs
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Axis 6, 12
Reference SNG France 1777
Specimens 19 (5 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3, 5, 7–8, 10, 12–15, 18: same pair of dies. 4, 6, 9, 11, 16–17: same pair of dies. 1–18: same obv. die as 1369/1–3, 1372/1, 3–4, 7–11, 1375/1–8, 1376/1–2, 1378/1–4, 1379/1–6.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1844,0425.1114 BMC 307
2 2     P: 1494 SNG 1777
3 3     B: 18311363, 1882/295
4 4     ✸ NY: 1944.100.55062
5 5     V: GR 29410
6 6     Ayvagediği hoard 148
7 7     Ayvagediği hoard 149
8 8     CNG EA 185, 2 Apr. 2008, lot 217
9 9     Hirsch 178, 12 May 1993, lot 1060
10 10     Lanz 146, 25 May 2009, lot 587
11 11     SNG Levante 1171 = CNG EA 90, 26 May 2004, lot 305
12 12     V-ON Leypold 2700
13 13     NAC I, 19 May 1999, lot 2013
14 14     A-KIKPE SNG Pfalz 1454
15 15     A-KIKPE SNG Pfalz 1455
16 16     A-KIKPE SNG Pfalz 1456
17 17     SNG vA 6067
18 18     Weber 7674
19 19     C. Rhodes coll.