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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Greek Imperial| > |Phoenicia| > RP84807
Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D., Berytus, Phoenicia
|Phoenicia|, |Trajan,| |25| |January| |98| |-| |8| |or| |9| |August| |117| |A.D.,| |Berytus,| |Phoenicia|, The ceremonial founding of a new Roman colony included plowing a furrow, the pomerium, a sacred boundary, around the site of the new city.

Rouvier notes that this type is very often incorrectly attributed to earlier emperors as the legend is frequently missing and the portrait resembles those of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nerva.
RP84807. Bronze AE 26, Sawaya cf. 540 (D98/-, unlisted reverse die); RPC Online III 3832 (23 spec.); BMC Phoenicia p. 64, 814; SNG Cop 95; Baramki AUB 52; Rouvier 520, F, tight flan, reverse slightly off center, Berytus (Beirut, Lebanon) mint, weight 14.082g, maximum diameter 26.1mm, die axis 0o, 98 - 102 A.D.; obverse IMP NER TRAIAN CAES - AVG GERM P P, laureate head right; reverse ?COL / IVL - AVG - FEL - BER? (Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus, FEL is upside down in exergue), veiled founder-priest plowing right with two oxen, plowing sacred pomerium around city; SOLD











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