RPC III, 487

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 487
Province Achaea
Region Epirus
City Nicopolis
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹωΤΗΡ ΠΟΛΕωϹ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Saviour of the city
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΛΕΥΚΑΤΗΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ
Reverse design Apollo Leucatès standing facing naked on basis, looking left, quiver at shoulder, holding arrow (?) in his right hand raised and bow in his left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Reference Oikonomidou Trajan 21, Calomino 21
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: I-B Friedlaender, Arch. Zeitung 1869, pl. XXIII, 21 = MG 141/45 = Oikonomidou Trajan 21 and pl. 13
2 2     Preveza Odeon excavations 1971