RPC III, 4440

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4440
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 temple with four columns (with canopy roof) enclosing statue of Heracles standing facing, head right, holding club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note Perhaps more of a shrine than a temple: the structure does not look like the normal sort of temples on the Alexandrian coinage. A similar shine encloses Isis Thermouthis on one coin, perhaps of year 16: see 4693.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.55464
2 2     ✸ Naville Auction 35, 29 Oct. 2017, lot 392, ex D1136