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Portrait doesn't look like him - I would start searching under Claudius first.

 

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=329358

SAMMLUNG J.-P. RIGHETTI TEIL 8
SYRIEN
GABALA (Seleukis und Pierien)
Traian, 98-117
No.: 640
Schätzpreis/Estimate: EUR 50.-
d=18 mm
Kleinbronze. Kopf mit L. n. r. Rv. GABALEWN / Cw Adler mit offenen Schwingen n. l. stehend. 4,39 g. SNG München 828var. (mit Datum îNR anstelle von Cw; Stern i.F. l.). Schwarze Patina.
Gutes sehr schön

 

rare?

 

you made the right call - here's the RPC entry, and another example.

Seleucis and Pieria, Gabala, Trajan, AD 98-117, Æ (18mm, 3.58g)
Obv: Laureate head right
Rev: Eagle standing left on palm frond, with wings spread; star to left
Ref: RPC III 3810
9 in ACSearch ~$50 for a VF+

 

Sulla80. Thank you very much. Apparently this coin is not rare?

 

You raise a long discussion about "what is rare"? RPC shows 21 specimen. Let's say there are 100 in the world altogether - is that rare?

 

If there are only 100 of them in the world, then in my opinion this is rare.

 

You may enjoy this thread from BenSi and this article from David Hendin and Arthur Houghton: "Defining Rarity in Seleucid and Ancient Jewish Coinages". The authors ask, "Can one devise a concept approach to rarity values that can be applied to all ancient coinages?"

 

Sulla80. Thank you very much. If coins are rare, then they are rare.
And how many pieces of such coins should be in order to be recognized as rare, I do not know.