RPC III, 4407.1


Image of specimen #4

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4407.1
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
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	Isis, crowned with disc and horns, standing facing, holding sceptre; to left, altar; to left, basis with hawk; to right, square basis, on which small figure (Harpocrates) sits, and which encloses jug with handle in form of a serpent; above, tree
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Average weight	21.29 g
Specimens	4 (1 in the core collections)

#	Specimen	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Note	More
1	1	G	SNG 3942	33			Show
2	2		Curtis = Aiello	33		rev. only illustrated on the title page and plate III, of Curtis, Survey	Show
3	3		DS Supp 85			‘Isis stante con Harpokrates?’ (DS Supp 85); the figure is not visible on the G coin. Weber (see below) refers to the boy (her son) by his names Horus and Harsiesis. All the coins seem to be from the same rev. die	Show
4	4 ✸		MünzZentrum 103 (2000) lot 191 = Naville Numismatics 82, 18 June 2023, lot 359	34.8	21.29	not illustrated (‘Gott steht zw. Postamenten v.v.; r. Laubbaum’), but = M. Weber, ‘Aegyptus in Nummis’, in (eds.). D. Gerin et al., Aegyptiaca Serta in Soheir Bakhoum Memoriam (Edizioni Ennerre, Milan, 2008), pp. 243-50, pl. 31 no. 3. Christiansen, RCA p. 160, called the design ‘Isis at altar’, but Weber has given a very full description and discussion of the design, which he interprets as Isis at the grave of Osiris. Apart from the B coin, the coins all seem to be from the same rev. die. A specimen was mentioned by Christiansen RCA, p. 160 in NY, but we could not find it	Show