RPC III, 6384

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6384
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
Nominative Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΝΟΜΟϹ ΜΕΝΦΕΙΤΗϹ (?), L ΙΒ
Reverse design Isis standing right, head left, wearing the vulture headdress, holding long sceptre in left hand, and raised uraeus, facing, in right hand; behind her, Apis bull standing, left, wearing sun disk
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Frankfurt: 1360 Geissen & Weber, ZPE 153, 2005, fig. 3 p. 315: ‘(Isis) streckt die Linke, um die sich eine Uräus-Schlange (undeutlich) windet, nach vorn’
2 2     DS11000, pl. 303 = Naville 49, 12 May 2019, lot 306