RPC III, 4144


Image of specimen #2

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4144
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Issue	L Δ = year 4
Dating	AD 100/1
Obverse inscription
Obverse design	laureate head of Trajan (?), right
Reverse inscription	L Δ
Edition	(ἔτους) δʹ
Translation	of year 4
Reverse design	crocodile standing, right
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	12 mm
Average weight	1.64 g
Axis	12
Specimens	5 (4 in the core collections)
Note	DS places three other coins after D1196 (DS 7310-7312), but the year is not clear on the rubbings. Two coins in V (V24124 and V36689) with elephant are kept with coins of year 4; the first has an illegible date, and the second looks more like 14.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	NY						Show
2	2 ✸	O: HCR34127	M 557	12	2.03			Show
3	3	V: GR 24115 (?)					kept with coins of year 1: see note there	Show
4	4		D1196					Show
5	5	O: HCR56450		12	1.24	12	Date not certain; attribution to Trajan not definite (cf. Domitian RPC II, 2746: for what it is worth, however, this coin looks more like the Trajanic coins, both obverse and reverse).	Show