RPC — Coin: 46814

Province	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Region	Egypt
Reign	Trajan
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Obverse design	laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription	Η[ΡΑΚΛΕω]ΠΟΛΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΕ
Reverse design	young Harsomtous/Heracles standing, left, wearing kalathos, inside Egyptian temple with two columns decorated with uraei, right hand to the mouth, and cradling club in left arm, on both sides, hawk standing on pedestals

URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/46814
Museum	Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (France)
Inventory no.	1301
Reference	Price & Trell, Coins and Their Cities, 1977, p. 222 fig. 491 [shrine of Isis with sacred birds on pedestals, attributed to the Aphroditopolite] =SNG 4, Alexandrie 1, 1139 [not identified as nome coin] = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 151, 2005, pl. III.30 [identification followed here]
Diameter	33
Weight	17.69
Axis	12
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External URI	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8551455b

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