RPC II, 2774

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 2774
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Domitian
Person (obv.) Domitian (Augustus)
Issue Oxyrhynchite (nome of Upper Egypt)
Dating L ΙΑ = year 11, AD 91/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΘΕΟ ΥΙΟϹ ΔΟΜΙΤ ϹΕΒ [ΓΕΡΜ]
Obverse design laureate (corn-ears) head of Domitian, right
Reverse inscription ΝΟΜΟϹ ΟΞΥΡΥΝΧ(Ε)ΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΑ
Reverse design Athena standing, 1., holding Nike and double axe
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Axis 12
Reference Weber and Geissen, pp. 169–70, no. I.1
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
Note The type was continued later under Trajan (D6336)
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     D 6634 = Naville Numismatics 69, 14 Nov. 2021, lot 261
2 2     D 6635
3 3     B J. Friedländer, ‘Nomenmünzen Domitian’s’, Berliner Blätter für Münz-, Siegel- undWappenkunde 4 (I868), pp. 29–34, at p. 29, with Taf. XLII.1 (line drawing)
4 4     Cologne ex Jungfleisch (Weber and Geissen, p. 170 note 49)
5 5     ✸ A. Tricarico coll.