RPC III, 4324.3

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4324.3
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
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Τραϊανὸς Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Δακικός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικὸς) Δακικ(ός)
Translation Emperor Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design uncertain laureate bust of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΒ
Edition ἔτους ιβʹ (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation of year 12
Reverse design Sarapis seated, left, holding sceptre; to left, Demeter standing, right, holding torch; to right, Tyche standing, left, holding rudder and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
Note See also NY 1944.100.56214 (date illegible; the ticket wrongly compares D1035), and Amsterdam with the same reverse design, although the year is not clear (it has the unusual - for this year - bust). Bakhoum identified the third figure as Tyche, and there does seem to be a trace of a rudder on both P 1069 and Amsterdam; the same grouping of deities occurs within a temple in years 13 and 20: a rudder may also be present on the B and Amsterdam coins of year 13, and perhaps the A coin of year 20 (but D1154 is not clear, also of year 20). But a rudder is not very clear, so Dattari gave the identification as Homonoia for the similar scene in a temple: see below. Confirmation required
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1069
2 2     NY