RPC III, 6529

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6529
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Pelusion (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 ΠΗΛΟΥϹΙΟΥ ΝΟΜΟϹ, L ΙΒ
Edition Πηλουσίου νομὸς (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation nome of Pelusion, of year 12
Reverse design young Horus of Mount Kasion/Zeus Kasios, standing, left, wearing hem-hem crown, half naked, holding sceptre in left hand, pomegranate in right hand; before him, orant child (Pelousios ?), right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 19.61 g
Axis 12
Specimens 7 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 4, 7: same rev. die.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L BMC Suppl. N125
2 2     B: 28884
3 3     NY: 1944.100.61405
4 4     Brussels: II.51.824 L. Bricault, RBN 149, 2003, pl. VI.44: rev. legend reads ‘[ΠΗΛ]ΟΥCΙΟΥ ΝΟΜΟC’ = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 164, 2008, fig. 8 p. 297
5 5     Alexandria
6 6     D6345 (rev. illus.; rev. legend reads ‘ΠΗΛΟΥCΙΟΥΤΗC ΝΟΜΟC’ but ‘Le lettere THCNO sono appena decifrabili’; to be corrected), DS pl. 309
7 7     Dürr, 16 nov. 1998, lot 780