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 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
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

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1069
2 2     NY