RPC III, 6275


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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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
Edition	Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικὸς) Δακικ(ός)
Translation	Emperor Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design	laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription	ΚΟΠΤΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ
Edition	Κοπτείτης (ἔτους) ιγʹ
Translation	Coptite, of year 13
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
Average weight	23.85 g
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.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸	P: 3917	Coptos, 2000, no. 170 p. 192	34	26.86			Show
2	2	NY: 1944.100.61381		34	19.20	12		Show
3	3	Cologne: 3376	Geissen & Weber, ZPE 144, 2003, pl. I.1		22.86		rev. ΚΟΠΤΟΙΤΗC	Show
4	4	A: 4976			24.75			Show
5	5		D6230 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 301					Show
6	6		R. Dauwe coll. 7.97054	34.5	25.56		DS10967, pl. 301 = Kölner Münzkabinett 66, 21-22 April 1997, lot 516 = Les Empereurs du Nil, 2000, p. 165 no 44: rev. ΚΟΠΤΙΤΗC	Show
7	7		DS10967, pl. 301 = MMAG 46, 1972, lot 184 (Figari - Mosconi 1942)					Show