RPC III, 4300

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4300
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IB = year 12
Dating AD 108/9
Obverse inscription [ ]
Edition [---]
Translation [---]
Obverse design uncertain laureate bust of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΒ
Edition (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation of year 12
Reverse design Euthenia seated, right, holding ears of corn and sceptre, resting arm on sphinx on basis; in field, several genii; to right, column
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 18.02 g
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Note Both D892 and the NY coin are very worn and no trace of a date is visible, although Dattari attributed his coin to year 12. The obverses are also very worn and so no help. The column is presumably a nilometer, and the design refers to a good flooding of the Nile and successful harvest (Vogt, p. 77).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.55400
2 2     ✸ D892 = Naville 47, 3 Mar. 2019, lot 262
3 3     Roma Numismatics EA 97, 26 May 2022, lot 683