RPC III, 4455


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4455
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	uncertain laureate bust of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription	L ΙΓ
Edition	ἔτους ιγʹ (ἔτους) ιγʹ
Translation	of year 13
Reverse design	Triumphal arch (of Nero), shown three-quarters facing, with statue of Mars in niche
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	35 mm
Average weight	21.37 g
Axis	1, 12
Specimens	2 (2 in the core collections)
Note	See F. S. Kleiner, ‘An Arch of Domitian on the Coins of Alexandria’, NC 1989, pp. 69-81, at pp. 70-1. Kleiner pointed out that it is a copy of Nero’s sestertii with an arch; and that the same design appears much later on contorniates.

#	Specimen	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			P: 1439	SNG 1279	34	20.40	1	date not legible, but placed here because of the NY coin	Show
2	2			NY: 1944.100.56262		35	22.34	12	the date is not really legible, but there may be traces of a gamma on the r. (Kleiner says it is dated to year 13).	Show