RPC X, — (unassigned; ID 63856)

 

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Coin type
Volume X
Number — (unassigned; ID 63856)
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Augusta Traiana
Reign Gallienus (sole reign)
Person (obv.) Gallienus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ
Obverse design radiate head of Gallienus, right
Reverse inscription ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΗϹ ΤΡΑΙΑ(ΝΗ), Δ
Reverse design Zeus (?) standing left, holding patera in right and sceptre in left; (to left, eagle)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss 509 (Dionysus), Varbanov 1403 (Zeus)
External URI(s) https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.augusta_trajana.1_ed.386
Specimens 15 (0 in the core collections)
Note Usually identified as Dionysus, but Zeus seems more likely, as suggested by the occasional presence of the eagle.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     Plovdiv: 1240 Schönert-Geiss 509 (found at Pazardzik)
— —     Stara Zagora Minokova AT 792-794 (Zeus), 802-806 (Dionysus), 807 (Zeus)
— —     CGT coll.
— —     Falghera 2586
— —     Gorny & Mosch EA 282, 14 Oct. 2021, lot 3366
— —     ✸ Varbanov 2, 1389
— —     Varbanov 2, 1413