RPC III, 4430.2


Image of specimen #2

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4430.2 json ttl rdf xml
Volume	III
Number	4430.2
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, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription	L ΙΓ
Reverse design	Sarapis seated, left, holding sceptre; to left, small Cerberus; to left, Demeter standing facing, holding torch; to left, kneeling figure; to right, Hermes standing, left, holding caduceus; above, two Nikai (?) holding bust (?)
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Specimens	4 (0 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Note	More
1	1	DS			the very worn, unnumbered, coin on pl. 53, bottom row, coin 3. Date uncertain	Show
2	2 ✸	DS7170 = Aiello	33		there are two coins numbered 7170 on pl. 51; this is row 2 coin 5; date uncertain	Show
3	3	Frankfurt 337			suggests an identification of the third figure as ‘Isis-Demeter (?)’: ‘mit modiusartigen Kopfschmuck nach Rechts stehend, die Rechte in der Hüfte gestützt (?), die Linke hält Fackel.’ There is no mention of the nikai in the Frankfurt description, nor is anything visible in the illustration; date uncertain	Show
4	4	DS 7170 = Naville Numismatics 72, 27 Mar. 2022, lot 317	34	22.11		Show