RPC III, 6378

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6378
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Aphroditopolite (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 ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΟΠΟΛΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΒ
Reverse design Hathor/Aphrodite standing, left, wearing feathers between two spurs, lowered left hand, and, in right hand, figure of Isis standing, left, wearing feathers between two spurs, holding situla in left hand, and uraeus raised left, in right hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 8 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 4–5, 7: same rev. die.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Cologne DS10889, pl. 295
2 2     A: 5017
3 3     A: 311/1506
4 4     D6190 (rev. illus.) (misread as ΑΝΤΑΙΟΠΟΛΙΤΗC) = DS pl. 295 (correctly identified) = Naville Numismatics 64, 21 Mar. 2021, lot 406 = Künker 382, 16 Mar. 2023, lot 425
5 5     DS10890, pl. 295 = Naville 46, 27 Jan. 2019, lot 331
6 6     DS10891, pl. 295 = Kolner Munzkabinett 66, 1997, lot 518 (Figari - Mosconi 1940)
7 7     DS n.d., pl. 296 = Naville 49, 12 May 2019, lot 303
8 8     Leu WA 19, 19 Feb. 2022, lot 2409 = Naumann EA 107, 5 Sept. 2021, lot 1296