RPC III, 6526

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6526
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Naucratis (nome of Lower Egypt)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Τραϊανὸς Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Δακικός 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 ΝΑΥΚΡΑΤΙϹ, L ΙΓ
Edition Ναύκρατις ἔτους ιγʹ Ναύκρατις (ἔτους) ιγʹ
Translation Naucratis, of year 13
Reverse design serpent-headed Shai/Agathos Daimon, wearing pschent, nemes, and paludamentum, cuirassed, standing, facing, head left, holding parazonium in left hand, and hawk wearing pschent, left, in right hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 23.86 g
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L BMC N39, Geissen & Weber, ZPE 155, 2006, fig. 27 p. 298
2 2     D6405, DS pl. 306
3 3     D6406 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 306 (year uncertain) = Naville 44, 4 Nov. 2018, lot 361
4 4     DS11054, pl. 306 (year uncertain but same design as the three others)
5 5     Dutilh, JIAN 3, 1900, p. 318 (not illus.).