RPC III, 4411

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4411
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IΓ = year 13
Dating AD 109/10
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription L ΙΓ
Reverse design kalathos in biga of oxen, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
Note These animals are variously described as buffaloes (Bakhoum), oxen (Geissen) and humped oxen (BMC). See Vogt, p. 81. DS7229-7230 have illegible dates. Vogt cited another example in Gotha.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1862,0614.180 BMC 553
2 2     P: 1084
3 3     Cologne Geissen 535