Drachm - Berytos colonial issue with Marsyas and galley prow

Drachm - Berytos (colonial issue with Marsyas and galley prow) - obverseDrachm - Berytos (colonial issue with Marsyas and galley prow) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Berytus (Syria)
Emperor Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus) (98-117)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 114-117
Value Drachm (1)
Currency Drachm
Composition Bronze
Weight 2.1 g
Diameter 13.5 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
91396
References SNG Copenhagen# 89,
Niels Breitenstein, Willy Schwabacher; 1942. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum / Volume 1. Italy, Part 1 : Etruria - Campania. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
And 43 more volumes.
BMC Greek# 27-35,
Reginald Stuart Poole; 1876. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 2. Sicily. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
And 26 more volumes.
RPC Online III# 3858
Roman Provincial Coinage (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/)

Obverse

Marsyas standing left, holding wine skin over shoulder, CO-L divided across field

Lettering: COL

Translation:
"Colonia"
(Colony)

Reverse

Forepart of Galley right, BER above

Lettering: BER

Translation: "Berytus"

Mint

Berytus, Phoenicia, modern-day Berytus, Lebanon

Comments

This coin is dated from the Phoenicia Roman colonization started under the reign of August. The Berytos colony, named Colonia Augusta Iulia Felix Berytus was built on the coast, near the old Achemenid-Hellenistic city which depends to the Roman colony.
This kind of coinage coexisted with other coinage depicting the Emperor.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (114-117)  Berytus

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