RPC III, 6364

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6364
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Heracleopolite (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
Reverse inscription ΗΡΑΚΛΕωΠΟΛΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ
Reverse design young Harsomtous/Heracles standing, left, wearing kalathos and lotus flower, right hand to the mouth, and hawk sitting on club, in left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Specimens 7 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 5: same rev. die.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC Suppl. N143
2 2     A AB 4856
3 3     Cairo E. Dutilh, RIN 7, 1894, no. 15 p. 44, pl. II.4 = Dutilh, JIAN 3, 1900, no. 4064
4 4     D6253 (no club described), DS pl. 300
5 5     ✸ DS10943, pl. 300 = Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 87
6 6     Aiello
7 7     Kovacs MBS XI, 19 June 1993, lot 211