ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Trajan, AE25 Abdera Thrace Nike

Obverse: AYTO TPAIANW KAISARI CEBACTW, laureate bust right.

Reverse: GERMA DAKI-KW - ABDHREITAI,
Nike standing left on Pedestal, holding Wreath and Palm.



Diameter: 25.6 x 26.2 x 1.6 mm, Weight: 7.41 g, Die axis: 180 degrees

Mint: Abdera, Thracia, 102 - 117 A.D. Reference: RPC 803





On 29 July last year Michel Amandry kindly contacted me, after my inquiry with the British Museum's Coins
and Medals Department, about this coin. Michel mentioned that only two examples had been known,
one in the Ashmolean Museum collection, Oxford (= NC 1953, 21/2 and pl. I, n°2)
and the other found during excavations at Abdera (Abdera excavations E 91/N 56).
With many thanks to Michel, this coin will be cited in the upcoming RPC Volume III (British Museum Press, 1 October 2015)