Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ26 - Trajan Decius ϹΕΠ ΚΟΛ ΡΗϹΑΙΝΗϹΙωΝ L III P
| Issuer | Rhesaena (Mesopotamia) |
|---|---|
| Year | 249-251 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | RPC IX#1589 |
| Obverse description | Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Trajan Decius facing right, depicted in three-quarter view from the front. The radiate crown, a hallmark of imperial solar iconography, is clearly rendered above the emperor's portrait. The cuirass reflects the military character of Decius's reign. A circular Greek legend surrounds the effigy, running along the rim of the flan. The coin exhibits heavy bronze patina and surface roughness consistent with provincial hammered coinage of the mid-third century. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of the city's fortune, stands facing left in a long garment, extending a patera over a lighted altar in her right hand and cradling a cornucopia in her left. Above, an eagle perches on a palm branch with a wreath in its beak, symbolising victory and divine favour. A palm tree rises at the left of the field, with a possible second palm at right. The reverse legend encircles the scene, identifying the issuing Septimian colony and the Legio III Parthica. The composition is characteristic of Mesopotamian provincial civic coinage of the Decian period. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |