RPC III, 6336

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6336
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Antaiopolite (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 ΑΝΤΑΙΟΠΟΛΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ
Reverse design cuirassed Netjerui/Antaios standing, left, wearing pschent, holding long spear in left hand, and hawk wearing pschent, left, in right hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 2–3: same rev. die. 5: same rev. die as 6335/3.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 3912 Égypte romaine, 1997, p. 73 no. 55 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 149, 2004, pl. I.9
2 2     P: 3944
3 3     D6192 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 294 = Naville 27, 27 Nov. 2016, lot 314
4 4     DS n.d. (also marked 10864, in error), pl. 294.
5 5     DS10862, pl. 294 = Naville 50, 23 June 2019, lot 333
6 6     ✸ Naville Numismatics 71, 13 Feb. 2022, lot 233