RPC III, 4937


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4937
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Person (rev.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Issue	L K = year 20
Dating	AD 116/17
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ΑΡΙ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ ΠΑΡ
Nominative	Imperator Traianus Optimus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Parthicus
Obverse design	nude bust of Trajan, wreath with ears of corn, right, with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription	L Κ
Reverse design	Emperor (Trajan) standing in quadriga, right, laureate-headed, wearing toga, crowned with wreath by small figure and holding eagle-tipped sceptre and branch
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	33 mm
Specimens	3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links	1–2: same pair of dies.
Note	See 4798

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Note	More
1	1 ✸	L: 1862,0614.183	BMC 524	33	16.98	the same design as is found in the year 17, but with a column	Show
2	2	Amsterdam					Show
3	3		DS Supp 12			there is something like a wing apparently visible, but it is not definite. The BM coin definitely seems to have no wings on the figure; they were also missing from the similar coins of year 17	Show