RPC III, 4974

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 4974
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Uncertain year (only unpublished designs included)
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 Ι [ ]
Reverse design Harpocrates of Hermopolis (?) seated, left, holding sceptre; to left and right, animal on garlanded altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Dattari identified the animal as an ichneumon. D909bis is described as year 10, but no large bronzes are known for that year; there might well be the remains of another number to the right of the figure, and the half-length bust suggests a coin of year 16-18. However, Harpocrates with an altar to either side seems to occur only in year 13: 4398.1
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ D909bis = Naville Numismatics 52, 22 Sept. 2019, lot 283