RPC III, 4515

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 4515
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IΔ = year 14
Dating AD 110/11
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Edition 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 ΙΔ
Edition (ἔτους) ιδʹ
Translation of year 14
Reverse design Galley with oars, left; Sarapis seated facing, head left, holding sceptre; to left, Isis Pharia standing left, with sail; to right, Demeter standing left, holding torch and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 19.57 g
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Note D1036 and one of the two next coins on DS p. 51 (unnumbered) may be additional specimens, but their dates are illegible. D gives year 11 for D1036 (but see commentary). The design also occurs for years 12-13 and 15. But year 14 seems clear on the Staffieri coin.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Cologne Geissen 545
2 2     Staffieri
3 3     DS 12236 = Naville 44, 4 Nov. 2018. lot 265