RPC III, 4749.1

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4749.1
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 ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate half-length bust of Trajan, right, with cuirass and aegis
Reverse inscription L ΙϚ
Reverse design Sarapis standing, right, holding cornucopia; to right, Homonoia standing, left, extending arm and holding cornucopia; between, altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Specimens 7 (1 in the core collections)
Note DS7167, which is poorly preserved and has no legible date, seems to have a figure of Sarapis on the r. and a figure holding a cornucopia on the l.: could it be this design but with the figures reversed? But the figure on the l. holds a sceptre, which Homonoia does not normally have.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 24190
2 2     D1031 = Kolner Munzkabinett 67, 1997, lot 529 (Figari - Mosconi 173)
3 3     DS7163 = Naville Numismatics 55, 9 Feb. 2020, lot 298
4 4     DS7164
5 5     DS7167
6 6     ✸ Roma 4 (2013) lot 417
7 7     Naville Auction 32, 18 June 2017, lot 248