RPC III, 4976


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Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	4976
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Person (rev.)	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Issue	Uncertain year (only unpublished designs included)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 bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription	[ ]
Reverse design	Nike standing right, holding trophy; in centre, Emperor (Trajan) standing facing, head right, holding sceptre and stretching out hand; to right, kneeling captive wearing Phrygian hat; uncertain square object (?) (altar?), surmounted by half-length figure (?)
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	33 mm
Axis	12
Specimens	1 (1 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			NY: 1944.100.56293		33	18.84	12	the year should be between 11 and 16 since the obv. seems definitely to read [ ]Ν ϹΕΒ – ΓΕΡΜ Δ[ ]; the date, which is in the exergue, can almost be read: it looks perhaps like 13? Kept with unpublished coins of year 15. “Listed in Vogt II, 34” (ticket)	Show