Abydos, Trajan, bronze (CN type 3345)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
98-117 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
TroasCoin type in bronze struck at Abydos in Troas under Trajan dated 98-117 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3345. Obverse: Laureate head of Trajan, right. Reverse: The Dioscuri on horseback, facing each other, each holding spear; above the horses heads crescent.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 19–20 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 5.78 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Abydos
- Region
- Troas
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Trajan
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Trajan, right.
- Reverse type
- The Dioscuri on horseback, facing each other, each holding spear; above the horses heads crescent.
- Obverse legend
- ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
- Reverse legend
- ΑΒΥ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Recorded findspots
- Aquae Calidae - Thermopolis (Vetren)
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3345
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3345
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 330, nr. 1071
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 59, nr. 1071
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1555
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 188, nr. 1555, pl. 67, pic. 1555
- external concordanceRPC III, 1555
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution