RPC III, 6275

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6275
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Coptite (nome of Upper Egypt)
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 ΚΟΠΤΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ
Reverse design Sobek-Geb/Kronos standing, right, veiled, wearing sun disk upon (or not [4, 6]) ram horns, holding dorcas gazelle standing (sometimes on crocodile), left, in left hand, and long sceptre (or harpa) in right hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3–5: same rev. die.
Note Mabbott 3716 (‘Poseidon standing with boat hook’; not illus.) belongs perhaps to this series.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 3917 Coptos, 2000, no. 170 p. 192
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61381
3 3     Cologne: 3376 Geissen & Weber, ZPE 144, 2003, pl. I.1
4 4     A: 4976
5 5     D6230 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 301
6 6     R. Dauwe coll. 7.97054
7 7     DS10967, pl. 301 = MMAG 46, 1972, lot 184 (Figari - Mosconi 1942)