RPC III, 4394

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4394
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
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Τραϊανὸς Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Δακικός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικὸς) Δακικ(ός)
Translation Emperor Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription L ΙΓ
Edition ἔτους ιγʹ (ἔτους) ιγʹ
Translation of year 13
Reverse design Hades, holding sceptre, and Persephone in quadriga, right; to right, Hermes standing, right, head left, holding caduceus, and stretching out hand; below, scattered poppies, kalathos and ears of corn
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.63 g
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note For the design, see J. Milne, JEA 37 (1951), p. 100. A similar design occurs on Alexandrian coins of Antoninus Pius in his year 5: DS 8851, O1728d, K1410: see http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/13960/ (accessed 3 January 2009). The London and Dattari coins are from different reverse dies
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: CR.5378 BMC 407
2 2     D1018 = Naville Numismatics 67, 1 Aug. 2021, lot 194