RPC III, 4538


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4538
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	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 ΙΔ
Edition	ἔτους ιδʹ (ἔτους) ιδʹ
Translation	of year 14
Reverse design	Sarapis seated, left; to left, small Harpocrates standing facing, raising hand; to right, Hermanubis standing, right, holding palm-branch and sceptre (?)
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Average weight	23.52 g
Axis	12
Specimens	3 (0 in the core collections)
Note	If the figure on the right is correctly identified as Hermanubis then he seems to be holding a short palm-branch and a sceptre: D1035 (‘palm-branch and caduceus’), K562 (‘palm-branch and aphlaston’). K562 is clearer. It looks quite like a sceptre to us.

#	Specimen	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸	Cologne	Geissen 562	33	26.95	12		Show
2	2		Curtis				Curtis, Survey, pl. XLIII. ‘Sarapis seat. between Harpokrates & Hermanubis; above LI Δ’; obv. ‘D2b3’: Curtis’ annotated copy of Milne. Curtis also had another similar specimen which he tentatively attributed to year 16 (‘LIS(?)’): Curtis’ annotated copy of Milne, but not otherwise attested for year 16	Show
3	3		D1035 = Naville Numismatics 63, 7 Feb. 2021, lot 290	34.3	20.08			Show