RPC III, 4784.3

 

Image of specimen #16

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4784.3
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IZ = year 17
Dating AD 113/14
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate half-length nude bust of Trajan, right, with aegis on, left, shoulder
Reverse inscription L ΙΖ
Reverse design Demeter standing facing, head right, holding torch and ears of corn; to right, Euthenia standing facing, head left, (leaning on column) holding ears of corn and sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 16 (5 in the core collections)
Note The coin wrongly illustrated as D803 on DS pl. 34 is another specimen of this type. The coin labelled 813 on DS plate 34 is the same type; but in his text D describes it as Ares and Athena. This suggests that his coins may have been mixed up, and indeed it looks as if he had originally written ‘manca’ (missing) beside the number 813 on pl. 34. Thanks to K. Emmett and P. Matthijs for discussion.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1360 SNG 1182
2 2     C
3 3     G: 246
4 4     O: HCR32977 M 696
5 5     V: GR 24199
6 6     A: Dem 1084
7 7     A: Dem 1812
8 8     Amsterdam
9 9     Amsterdam
10 10     Amsterdam
11 11     Cologne Geissen 633
12 12     D835 = Naville 30, 2 Apr. 2017, lot 295
13 13     D836 = Naville 47, 3 Mar. 2019, lot 270
14 14     D840 (column) = Kunst und Munzen XXII, 1981, lot 285 (Figari - Mosconi 133)
15 15     DS6986
16 16     ✸ Staffieri