RPC III, 4276


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4276
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Issue	L IA = year 11
Dating	AD 107/8
Obverse inscription
Obverse design	laureate head of Trajan (?), right
Reverse inscription	L ΙΑ
Reverse design	hippopotamus (or rhinoceros) standing, right
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	14 mm
Axis	12
Specimens	9 (6 in the core collections)
Note	All the coins are classified here as showing a hippopotamus, although the animal is sometimes identified as a rhinoceros: so O589, BMC 497, Cop 241. It is not clear which is intended; perhaps both.