Mint of Trajan Provincial Tridrachm

[Paddy]

I am not absolutely clear on where exactly the attached coin was minted. Bostra Arabia, Cappadochia or uncertain mint?

Thanks in advance,

Patrik

[Pekka K]

Tyre, Phoenicia as here:

http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=353831

Pekka K

[Paddy]

Tyre, Phoenicia as here:

http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=353831

Pekka K

In several places they've mentioned Bostra, Arabia. Is that where they found most of these coins or what?

[benito]

Bostra was a mint.

[Paddy]

I cannot read the french text and so how are you to interpret the mention of two mints?

[curtislclay]

Summary of the French: Metcalf in 1975 assigned these coins to Bostra. (Earlier they had been attributed to Caesarea in Cappadocia.) The style is that of the mint of Rome. The most recent studies [not named, unfortunately] assign the coins to Tyre.

[Paddy]

Summary of the French: Metcalf in 1975 assigned these coins to Bostra. (Earlier they had been attributed to Caessarea in Cappadocia.) The style is that of the mint of Rome. The most recent studies [not named, unfortunately] assign the coins to Tyre.

Thanks. Would it be correct to put "uncertain mint" as mint in description and then quote this as a  summary?

Edit: I'll do it this way: Sydenham - Caessarea... Metcalf - Bostra... Some recent studies - Tyre. I think it it's justified to say that the mint is uncertain.

[Paddy]

I might as well ask.. .. the wreath I can understand, as well as the eagle.. but a hand? What does that signfy?

[Paddy]

End result: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-100452

[Thilo]

Patrik,

a wooden hand on a long stick was originally used as the standard or signum of the maniple. Later, it was also used by cohorts. For a (modern) example, see here: 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_signum.jpg

It is not exactly clear what it represented. However, some scholars have seen the hand of the commander in it.

Thus, the three standards in the reverse may be interpreted as the legionary eagle (aquila) as well as two other signa, potentially representing cohorts or maniples or both.

Regards

Thilo

[Paddy]

Patrik,

a wooden hand on a long stick was originally used as the standard or signum of the maniple. Later, it was also used by cohorts. For a (modern) example, see here: 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_signum.jpg

It is not exactly clear what it represented. However, some scholars have seen the hand of the commander in it.

Thus, the three standards in the reverse may be interpreted as the legionary eagle (aquila) as well as two other signa, potentially representing cohorts or maniples or both.

Regards

Thilo

Thank you very much!