RPC III, 6330

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6330
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Thinite (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 [Θ]ΙΝΕΙΤΗϹ ΝΟΜΟϹ, L ΙΒ
Reverse design Onuris-Shu/Ares standing facing, wearing cuirass, military dress, and a crown with feathers (?), holding tropaion with left hand, right hand above lighted altar in right field
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 3–4: same rev. die.
Note 3 and 4 perhaps the same coin.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC Suppl. 2786
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61410
3 3     ✸ Milan SNG 949 (‘Nomos incerto’) = S. Ambrosoli, RIN 5, 1892, p. 3–6 and fig.: attribution to the Tanite = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 160, 2007, p. 295 n. 133 and fig. 25 p. 300: attribution to the Thinite
4 4     DS pl. LVI.456.