RPC III, 6422

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6422
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Cabasite (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 ΚΑΒΑϹΙΤΗϹ ΝΟΜΟϹ, L ΙΒ
Edition Καβασίτης νομός (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation Cabasite nome, of year 12
Reverse design Horus/Harpocrates standing facing, head left, half naked, wearing pschent, holding hawk wearing pschent, left, in left hand, unidentifiable animal in right hand; hawk wearing pschent, at his feet in right (or left) field
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 20.23 g
Axis 12
Specimens 7 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.61378
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61379
3 3     NY: 1944.100.61380
4 4     A: 1896/7 (903) 1437 Geissen & Weber, ZPE 155, 2006, fig. 21b p. 297
5 5     ✸ D6225 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 301
6 6 –7     DS10964, DS n. d. pl. 30