RPC III, 4128

 

Image of specimen #14

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4128
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L B = year 2
Dating AD 98/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙΣ ΝΕΡ - ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription L Β
Reverse design temple (classical) with two columns enclosing Sarapis standing, facing, head, left, holding sceptre; to left, altar; to left, uncertain object
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 1, 12
Specimens 23 (15 in the core collections)
Note The altar is decorated with dots, representing the letters of an inscription, presumably. A Dem 943 is described correctly by Feuardent as being ‘une stèle sur laquelle on voit les traces d’une légende en quatre lignes’. There is something to the left of the temple, partially visible on some coins, and conventionally described as a vexillum (so S. Handler, AJA 75 (1971), p. 65): K446, B Löbb, M. See coins of year 14 for Sarapis with a vexillum. the coins in P with the same reverse design, but supposedly of this year with ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ (P1019-20) are later, probably perhaps of year 15, although P1019 seems to be from the same obv. die as P1051, which is probably of year 11, thereby suggesting that P1019 is perhaps of year 12.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1841,0730.203 BMC 535
2 2     P: 1207 SNG 1016
3 3     P: 1102 SNG 1017
4 4     P: 1206 SNG 1018
5 5     B: Löbb.
6 6     B: Löbb.
7 7     C
8 8     NY
9 9     NY
10 10     NY
11 11     NY
12 12     NY
13 13     O: HCR32880 M 552
14 14     ✸ O: HCR32881 M 553
15 15     V: GR 24117
16 16     A: 156
17 17     A: Dem 943
18 18     A: Dem 944
19 19     Cologne Geissen 446
20 20     D1140 = Kress 153, 1971, lot 441 (Figari - Mosconi 193)
21 21     D1141 = Naville 50, 23 June 2019, lot 245
22 22     D1142 = Naville Auction 33, 16 July 2017, lot 201
23 23     M