RPC III, 4396A

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 4396A
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IΓ = year 13
Dating AD 109/10
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription L ΙΓ
Reverse design Harpocrates with lower body of a crocodile, standing left, wearing pschent, right hand to mouth, left arm holding cornucopia; two bases decorated with garlands around him; on the front base, hydria; on the base behind, temple with five columns with a frieze of uraei
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Note The same reverse type as coins of the Menelaite nome - https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15700 https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15701 - but lacking the name of the nome.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ CNG EA 480, 11 Nov. 2020, lot 434
2 2     DS 903
3 3     D894 = Naville Numismatics 63, 7 Feb. 2021, lot 289