RPC III, 1312

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1312
Province Asia
Region Uncertain
City Cistophoric mint
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Second Group: Cos II
Dating AD 98
Obverse inscription IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN- AVG GERM P M TR P P P
Edition Imp(erator) Caes(ar) Nerva Traian(us) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription COS II
Edition Co(n)s(ul) II
Translation consul for the second time
Reverse design legionary eagle (aquila) between two standards, one (l.) surmounted by hand and the other (r.) surmounted by banner
Metal silver
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 10.15 g
Reference RIC —; Woytek p. 79, Typ 5 and Taf. 20, 5
Specimens 22 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3: same obv. die as 1313/1, 5, 8, 20. 2, 10: same obv. die as 1313/2, 4, 10, 17, 21–2. 4, 9: same obv. die. 5–7, 12–13: same obv. die. 8: same obv. die as 1313/13. 14: same obv. die as 1313/3. 15: same obv. die as 1313/6–7.
Note [8 obv. dies, five shared with 1313]

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     C ex Lanz 60, 11 June 1992, lot 412
2 2     V: GR 29831
3 3     P Wa
4 4     Kress 127, 23 Oct. 1963, lot 673
5 5     Künker 18, 1 Oct. 1990, lot 8117
6 6     Lanz 58, 21 Nov. 1991, lot 558
7 7     Albuquerque 35, 18 June 1992, lot 147
8 8     ✸ CNG MBS 57, 4 Apr. 2001, lot 1204
9 9     CNG EA 67, 25 June 2003, lot 88
10 10 –16     Berk Stock Inv. 27429
11 11     Berk Stock Inv. 27430
12 12     Berk Stock Inv. 46434
13 13     Berk Stock Inv. 46436
14 14     Berk Stock Inv. 46440
15 15     Berk Stock Inv. 46444
16 16     Berk Stock Inv. 63982