laureate bust of Trajan, right, draped and cuirassed, seen from rear
Reverse inscription
L ΙϚ
Edition
(ἔτους) ιϛʹ
Translation
of year 16
Reverse design
temple (classical) with two columns enclosing Zeus (?) standing facing, head left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
33 mm
Specimens
1 (0 in the core collections)
Note
Described by D as similar to 1155 (= year 13: Zeus standing, l., with thunderbolt and sceptre; to l., eagle). Bakhoum followed this in her description of P 1173 = 4449/5 as ‘Zeus debout à g. nu, tenant de la main dr. abaissée un foudre et de la g. un sceptre; à ses pieds, un aigle à g. tournant la tête a dr.’. However the details are not at all clear on the rubbing of D1156 in DS. On the slightly clearer P coin, moreover, the figure seems to have something on his head and perhaps to be clothed; the ‘eagle’ looks more like the stylised way that Cerberus is sometimes depicted. So it probably has Sarapis, as suggested by Keith Emmett.