RPC III, 4312.3


Image of specimen #2

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4312.3
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Issue	L IB = year 12
Dating	AD 108/9
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative	Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design	laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription	L ΙΒ
Reverse design	Nilus reclining on crocodile, left, holding reed and cornucopia; above, ΙϚ; (below, lotus flowers)
Metal	copper-based alloy
Specimens	5 (2 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Weight	Note	More
1	1	L: 1864,1118.330	BMC 470	16.67	BMC gives the unusual obverse inscription AYT KAI TPAIAN CƐΒ ΓƐΡM ΔΑΚΙΚ like the variant inscription for year 13 and 4306.3 of year 12, but with ΓƐΡM, but the first part of the inscription is illegible	Show
2	2 ✸	O: HCR32896	M 595	19.30		Show
3	3		D962 (flowers)			Show
4	4		DS7102 = Lanz 32, 1985, lot 500 (Figari - Mosconi 158)			Show
5	5		Rafiah hoard			Show