RPC II, 2779

 

Image of specimen #16

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 2779
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Domitian
Person (obv.) Domitian (Augustus)
Issue Sebennyte (nome of Lower Egypt)
Dating L ΙΑ = year 11, AD 91/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΘΕΟ(Υ) ΥΙΟϹ ΔΟΜΙΤ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) θεοῦ υἰὸς Δομιτ(ιανὸς) Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Son of the Divine Domitian Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design laureate (corn-ears) head of Domitian, right
Reverse inscription ΝΟΜΟϹ ϹΕΒΕΝΝΥΤΗϹ, L ΙΑ
Edition Νόμος Σεβεννύτης (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation Nome Sebennyte, of year 11
Reverse design Ares standing, left, holding spear and parazonium; to left, stag
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 11.88 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Weber and Geissen, p. 311, no. Ι
Specimens 19 (5 in the core collections)
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Dattari 6376 = Naville Numismatics 81, 7 May 2023, lot 446
2 2     Dattari 6377
3 3     NY: 1944.100.54003
4 4     L
5 5     Cologne Geissen 3373
6 6     V NZ I, 1889, pp. 395–6
7 7     G p. 562, no 1 = pl. 91.34 = SNG 4959
8 8     B Lobbecke ZfN 7, 1880, p. 59, no. 18
9 9     Mabbott 3782
10 10     DS 6377 = Naville Numismatics 42, 22 July 2018, lot 301
11 11     DS pl. 311, 11155 = Naville Numismatics 63, 7 Feb. 2021, lot 372
12 12 –15     DS pl. 311, 11154, 11156–58
16 16     ✸ Dattari 421 = Naville Numismatics 29, 26 Feb. 2017, lot 464
17 17     A. Tricarico coll.
18 18     R. Dauwe coll. 144.05011
19 19     Cyrene Agora hoard, no. 1043: M. Asolati, Nummi Aenei Cyrenaici: Strutturae cronologia della monetazione bronzea cirenaica di età Greca e Romana (325 aC-180dC) (Monografie di Archeologia Libica 32, Rome, 2011), p. 234