RPC III, 4217.1

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4217.1
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IA = year 11
Dating AD 107/8
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, draped and cuirassed, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΙΑ
Reverse design Dioscuri (nude) standing facing holding spears; between, female figure (Demeter?), wearing kalathos, standing facing
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Note Identified as Demeter in DS Supp; the figure on the Amsterdam coin also seems female and to wear a kalathos. The reading of the date in the exergue of DS Supp 46 as LIA is not certain, but very probable. The date of the Amsterdam coin is not clear, but it is placed here as it is so like DS Supp 46; its date actually looks more like L IH? D1034 looks like another specimen (‘Sarapis tiene simpulum, in piede di fronte fra i Dioskuri pure di fronte, tengono ciascuno una frusta ed un’asta. Nel campo, [LI] Θ’: but the date is not clear on the rubbing in DS). The Dioscuri appear with a different figure, tentatively identified as Selene, in year 12 (see 4290.1)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Amsterdam
2 2     DS Supp 46
3 3     Malloy XIV (1979) lot 148 = Aiello (‘ex Slocum’)