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III, 6383
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6383
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Volume
III
Number
6383
Province
Egypt
Region
Egypt
City
Alexandria
Reign
Trajan
Person (obv.)
Trajan (Augustus)
Issue
Memphite (nome of Lower Egypt)
Obverse inscription
ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Edition
Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικὸς) Δακικ(ός)
Translation
Emperor Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design
laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription
ΝΟΜΟϹ ΜΕΝΦΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΒ
Edition
νομὸς Μενφείτης (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation
Memphite nome, of year 12
Reverse design
Isis standing, right, holding long sceptre in right hand, and raised uraeus, facing (?), in left hand; behind her, Apis bull standing, right, wearing sun disk
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
32 mm
Average weight
13.04 g
Specimens
3 (0 in the core collections)
Note
L = BMC N19, 11.67 (rev. ΝΟΜΟC ΜΕΜΦΕΙΤΗC, year L ΙΑ, 27/8 mm) is tooled, as Milne,
Ancient Egypt
, 1932, p. 75 noticed. DS11008, pl. 304 (= Dattari,
JIAN
7, 1904, pl. VIII.2 [rev. ΝΟΜΟC ΜΕΜΦΕΙΤΗC], year illegible, 27/8 mm) is problematic too.
Specimens of this coin type
Number
Number
Obverse
Reverse
Museum
Bibliography
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Note
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1
1
✸
D6296, DS pl. 303
35
‘bove senza il disco’ = Geissen & Weber,
ZPE
153, 2005, fig. 2, p. 315: ‘(Isis) streckt die Linke, um die sich eine Uräus-Schlange (undeutlich) windet, nach vorn’
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2
2
DS10999, pl. 303
head of Isis l.; year uncertain
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3
3
DS 11008 = Naville Numismatics 69, 14 Nov. 2021, lot 260 ('year 11')
29.7
13.04
Year illegible though read as L ΙΑ by Dattari,
JIAN
7, 1904, pl. VIII.2 (this coin illustrated).
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