RPC III, 6386

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6386
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 ΜΕΜΦΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ
Reverse design Isis standing, right, wearing the vulture headdress, holding long sceptre in right hand, and apples (?), in left hand; behind her, Apis bull standing, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 9 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 2–3: same rev. die.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.61393
2 2     Brussels: II.51.814 L. Bricault, RBN 149, 2003, pl. V.34 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 153, 2005, fig. 5 p. 315: ‘(Isis) streckt die Linke, um die sich eine Uräus-Schlange (undeutlich) windet, nach vorn’
3 3     A: 5021
4 4     Alexandria
5 5     DS11001
6 6     DS11002 = Naville Numismatics 53, 3 Nov. 2019, lot 373
7 7 –9     DS11003–5