RPC III, 4693

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4693
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IϚ = year 16
Dating AD 112/13
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΜ (sic) ΔΑΚΙΚ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Τραϊανὸς Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Δακικός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸς) Γε<ρ>(μανικὸς) 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 [ΙϚ]
Edition ἔτους ιϛʹ (ἔτους) ιϛʹ
Translation of year 16
Reverse design temple with four columns (with canopy roof) enclosing anguipede figure of Isis Thermoutis, holding torch in each hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 20.24 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note Confirmation required. 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 shrine encloses Heracles on coins of year 13: 4440.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cologne Geissen 737 (?)
2 2     ✸ Uncertain (?)