RPC III, 4376.1

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4376.1
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L ΙΓ = 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, draped and cuirassed
Reverse inscription L ΙΓ
Reverse design Demeter standing facing, head right, holding torch and ears of corn over kalathos above two serpents; to left, garlanded altar surmounted by three figures
Metal copper-based alloy
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note DS6981 = 4595.1 is similar: date illegible, but tentatively assigned to year 15 (Emmett 434 gives it to year 14). An extremely worn coin in NY (1944.100.56260: kept with coins of year 4) seems to have the same design but for a smaller denomination: 27 mm; 10.74 g). Misdescribed by Curtis 612z as Emperor with city wall; he identified the three figures as ‘Isis, Demeter and Euthenia’, but their identities are uncertain. More fully described by Curtis in his annotated copy of Milne (information from Keith Emmett).

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: Löbb.