Drachm
Trajan
Roman Imperial
Caesarea
Cappodocia
Asia Minor
Roman Empire
Middle East
112-115
Silver
Diameter: 3/4 in. (18.6 mm)
Weight: 3.29 g
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29418
Geography
Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, West Asia, Asia
Period
1-500
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Laureate bust of Trajan, facing right, drapery on both shoulders; initialed "G" at mid lower neck; dotted border; crudely done portrait and lettering; inward reading inscription, moving clockwise, starting 6.5 o'clock: [AYTOK]PKAICNEPTPAIANCEB(gamma)(pellet below)[EPM(delta)AK]; Reverse: Draped figure (Arabia) standing left, staff in left hand, right hand extended holding three-pronged branch over small camel at feet; inward reading inscription, moving clockwise, starting 7 o'clock: (delta)HMAPX[E(xi)**Y(pi)AT**]; struck off flan so that the right side of the inscription is missing
Provenance
Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sydenham, Trajan nos. 183-5, 189; Weber, no. 299
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