1982.100.48: Coin of Seleucia Pieria under Trajan
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1982.100.48
- People
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Trajan, Roman (r. 98-117 CE)
- Title
- Coin of Seleucia Pieria under Trajan
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 98-117 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Seleukeia Pieria (Syria)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Middle
- Culture
- Roman Provincial
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/170792
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 10.1 g
- Die Axis
- 12
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: AVTOKPKAICNEP TPAIANOCAPIC TCEBΓEPMΔAK
- Reverse Inscription: CEΛEYKEωN ΠEIEPIAC, in field A (ΠIEPIAC for ΠEIE PIAC)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- "a Glamis Castle coin"
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- BMC 36
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of H. Bartlett Wells, Class of 1929
- Accession Year
- 1982
- Object Number
- 1982.100.48
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.: Bust of Trajan, r., laureate, border of dots.
Rev.: Sacred stone of Zeus Kasios (with fillet attached) within tetrastyle shrine consisting of four pillars supporting a pyramidal roof surmounted by an eagle, beneath type ZEYC KACIOC, bead and reel border.
Verification Level
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