RPC III, 4358

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4358
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IΓ = year 13
Dating AD 109/10
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 ΙΓ
Reverse design Artemis advancing, right, holding bow (?); to left, stag; to right, altar surmounted by branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note The object looks more like a short sceptre or stick, but presumably a bow is intended (as on the similar coins of year 15). It looks more like a bow on DS Supp 29, perhaps also a coin of year 13: see below.
Feedback

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A: 87/161