RPC III, 6299


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Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	6299
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Issue	Diospolis Magna (nome of Upper Egypt)
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative	Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design	laureate bust of Trajan, right, draped and cuirassed, seen from rear
Reverse inscription	ΔΙΟϹΠΟΛΙϹ Η ΜΕΓΑΛΗ, L ΙΒ
Reverse design	Heron riding, right, radiate and haloed, head facing, wearing military dress, holding reins with left hand, patera in right hand, feeding serpent wrapped around the trunk of a tree
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Axis	11
Specimens	5 (1 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸	L	BMC Suppl. N149, Sotheby’s, 21 Feb. 1929, lot 433 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 144, 2003, pl. II.18	34	19.56		holed twice	Show
2	2	A: 4971			19.33			Show
3	3	Cairo					E. Dutilh, RIN 7, 1894, no. 4 p. 38-41, pl. II.2: “... Η ΜΕΓΑΛΗ; Hathor (...) debout, du pied gauche, sur l’étrier gauche d’un cheval au galop à droite” = Dutilh, JIAN 3, 1900, no 4051: year illegible but type very close to the London coin	Show
4	4		R. Dauwe coll.					Show
5	5		CNG EA 511, 9 Mar. 2022, lot 283	34.5	21.92	11		Show