RPC IX, 1446

 

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Coin type
Volume IX
Number 1446
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Mopsus
Reign Trebonianus Gallus
Person (obv.) Trebonianus Gallus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΘΙΤ = 319
Dating AD 251/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΕΒωΝΙΟϹ ΓΑΛΛΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Trebonianus Gallus Augustus
Obverse design radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gallus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΑΓΩΝ ΚΡΙϹΜΟϹ ΑΔΡΙ ΜΟΨΕ(Α), ΘΙΤ
Reverse design nude athlete standing right, placing crown on his head and holding palm
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference vA Mopsos 79 corr., 80
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3: same pair of dies. 2, 4: same pair of dies. 1, 3, 5: same obv. die. 1–4: same rev. die.
Note VA Mopsos 79 describes https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/17759 with a laureate bust and reads the year ΗΙΤ (318), but https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/19094 is of the same pair of dies: the bust is radiate and the year reads ΘΙΤ (319)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1982,0514.1
2 2     C: 483-1948 SNG 5266 = vA Mopsos pl. 5.60
3 3     Winterthur KM p. 475, no. 10
4 4     SNG Levante 1355 = CNG EA 134, 1 Mar. 2006, lot 232
5 5     ✸ Pecunem 34, 2 Aug. 2015, lot 789
6 6     CGT coll. = Gert Boersema