RPC III, 4412.9

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 4412.9
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 Hermes standing, left, holding purse and caduceus; to left, small figure (Paniskos?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Hermes often holds the infant Dionysus; the small figure may perhaps be a genius (?), or, more plausibly as L. Bricault has suggested to us, a Paniskos (compare the figure on coins of Hadrian: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/. See also year 14 (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/. This coin has this strange RPC number, as it was only very recently discovered, and added at the last minute in the preparation of this volume.
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