Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (14.2019)

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Calchedon and Sinope,32 but the small number of coins from both of these cities
does not allow us to verify this hypothesis.
The coins on which only the title Germanicus appeared in Greek were issued
in Apamea, Nicomedia, Juliopolis, Prusias ad Hypium, Tium, Amastris, and
Abonoteichos.33 They make up 35% of the issues struck in Bithynia and Pontus.
The imperial coins from the beginning of Trajan’s reign show the emperor in
a non-idealized fashion, with a long neck and a head that is flat in the back.
These features were also reflected on issues from Bithynia and Pontus.34 On this
basis, one can assume that some of the coins without an ethnicon could also have
been struck at the beginning of Trajan’s reign.35 The period in which cognomen
Dacicus appeared on the coins is the one that most of the coins (48%) come
from. This part of Trajan’s title appeared on issues from Prusa ad Olympum,
Nicaea, Calchedon, Byzantium, Heraclea, Tium, Sinope, Amastris, andAmisus.36 37
Woytek divided the busts from imperial coins with the cognomen Dacicus into
four categories of representations.3" Type A representations are dated to between
99 and 105. The images from this period have a flat, elongated face, a flat spot on
the back of the head, a forehead, and strong facial features. Type B representations
have a large, wide head and bust, a head that is rounded in back, a forehead,
and a clearly engraved jaw. These representations are dated to between 105 and
107. The issues with type C representations are dated to between 107 and 109.
The representations of the emperor from this period have a long neck and a head
that is rounded in back. They are similar to type A representations but the portrait
is idealized. Finally, type D representations can be found on coins struck after
109. These portraits are characterized by their wide busts, a clearly defined nose
and chin, and a head that is rounded in the back.
It is only on some of the coins struck in mints from the lands of Bithynia and
Pontus that the portraits have features which enable us to determine the type of

32 Calchedon: 23 mm, 7-8 g (RPC III 1061); Sinope: 29 mm, 16-17 g (RPC III 1219).
33 Apamea RPC III 1029-1031; Nicomedia RPC III 1089-1092; Juliopolis RPC III 1098-1100; Prusias
ad Hypium RPC III 1101-1103; Tium RPC III 1178-1183; Amastris RPC III 1199-1204; Abonoteichos RPC III
1211-1212.
34 Apamea RPC III 1029-1031; Nicomedia RPC III 1089-1092; Juliopolis RPC III 1098-1100; Prusias ad
Hypium RPC III 1101-1103; Heraclea Pontica RPC III 1161-1162; Tium RPC III 1178-1184; Amastris RPC III
1198-1204 Abonoteichos RPC III 1211-1213.
35 RPC III 1121-1130, 1137-1138, 1149, 1153.
36 This nickname appears on all the coins from Prusa ad Olympum (RPC III 1035-1049), on 95% of the issues
from Byzantium (RPC III 1067-1069, 1071-1083), on 80% of the issues from Heraclea (RPC III 1163-1177),
on 66% of the issues from Sinope (RPC III 1217-1218), on 64% of the issues from Amisus (RPC III 1236-1244),
on 50% of the issues from Tium (RPC III 1185-1190), on 10% of the issues from Amastris (RPC III 1207), on
one issue from Nicaea (RPC III 1059), and on one issue from Calchedon (RPC III 1061).
37 WOYTEK 2010: 58-62; 685-686.