RPC III, 6477

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6477
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Sebennyte superior (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 ϹΕΒΕΝΝΥΤΗϹ ΝΟΜΟϹ, L Ι[Ε ?]
Reverse design Onuris-Shu standing, left, wearing military dress and helmet, holding spear in right hand, and parazonium in left hand; oryx, left, at his feet in left field
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC Suppl. N135, Sotheby’s, 21 Feb. 1929, lot 433 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 158, 2006, fig. 12 p. 298
2 2     ✸ DS Supp. 35 = Naville Numismatics 61, 8 Nov. 2020, lot 259