RPC III, 6367

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6367
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, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ
Reverse design young Harsomtous/Heracles standing on stairs, facing, wearing kalathos, inside Egyptian temple with two columns decorated with uraei, right hand to the mouth, and club in left hand; before, Egyptian altar; behind, hawk wearing pschent, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 8 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     O: HCR32913 M 609a
2 2     NY: 1944.10.61386
3 3     NY: 1944.100.61410
4 4     ✸ Cologne Hirsch 236, 23–25 Sept. 2004, lot 2272 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 151, 2005, pl. III.25
5 5     A: 5003 Dem 3526
6 6     D6256 (obv. head l., year ‘L IB’), DS pl. 300, 22.91 ( = Kunst und Munzen 42, 1980, lot 56 (Figari - Mosconi 1956) = Finarte, Asta 995, 26–27 Nov. 1997, lot 887 = Lanz 92, 4–5 June 1999, lot 562)
7 7 –8     DS10948–9, pl. 300.