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 IΓ = year 13
Dating	AD 109/10
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative	Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design	uncertain laureate bust of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription	L ΙΓ
Reverse design	Triumphal arch (of Nero), shown three-quarters facing, with statue of Mars in niche
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	35 mm
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.

Number	Number	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