RPC III, 492

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 492
Province Achaea
Region Epirus
City Nicopolis
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹωΤΗΡ ΠΟΛΕωϹ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Saviour of the city
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right, with drapery (small aegis) on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΝΕΙΚΟΠΟΛΙϹ
Reverse design Nike standing right, holding wreath in right hand and palm on left shoulder
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 6
Reference Oikonomidou Trajan 28–37 and Oikonomidou Hadrian 40, Calomino 26B/1–2
Specimens 17 (7 in the core collections)
Die-links 2, 4–6: same obv. die.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     O: Milne 1947, ex Grantley duplicates Oikonomidou Trajan 35α and pl. 14
2 2     ✸ P: 182 Oikonomidou Trajan 30 and pl. 14
3 3     V-Schottenstift: 23 Oikonomidou Trajan 36β and pl. 14
4 4     Graz = Oikonomidou Trajan 28β
5 5     B: Fox Oikonomidou Trajan 28α and pl. 13
6 6     B: Löbb. Oikonomidou Trajan 29 and pl. 13
7 7     B: Löbb. Oikonomidou Trajan 36α and pl. 14
8 8     Mu SNG 547 = Oikonomidou Trajan 31 and pl. 14
9 9     Amsterdam: S 2535
10 10     A: 1937α Oikonomidou Trajan 33 and pl. 14
11 11     N: F 6813 Oikonomidou Trajan 34α and pl. 14
12 12     Va = Oikonomidou Trajan 37 and pl. 14
13 13     BCD = Oikonomidou Trajan 35β
14 14     Yale: 2004.61838 (PRF) Oikonomidou Trajan 32 and pl. 14
15 15     NY: 1944.100.18774 Oikonomidou Hadrian 40 and pl. 17
16 16     Ioannina from the excavations of Dodone, 1959 = Oikonomidou Trajan 34β
17 17     Ioannina from the exacavations of Nicopolis, 1971 = Oikonomidou Trajan 36γ