RPC III, 6445

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6445
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Menelaite (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 ΜΕΝΕΛΑΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΔ
Edition Μενελαείτης (ἔτους) ιδʹ
Translation Menelaite (nome), of year 14
Reverse design Harpocrates with lower body of a crocodile, standing left on a base, wearing pschent, right hand to mouth, left arm holding cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 24.95 g
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L BMC Suppl. N121
2 2     B: 28798
3 3     Vat: 1925
4 4     D6311, DS pl. 305
5 5     DS11033, pl. 305 = Naville Numismatics 60, 27 Sept. 2020, lot 328
6 6     Aiello ( = Mabbott 3751 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 157, 2006, fig. 3 p. 301)