RPC III, 6445

 

Image of specimen #1

 

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
Nominative Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΜΕΝΕΛΑΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΔ
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
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)

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)