RPC III, 6530

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6530
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 ΠΗΛΟΥϹΙωΤωΝ ΠΟΛΕωϹ, L ΙΓ
Edition Πηλουσιωτῶν πόλεως (ἔτους)ιγʹ
Translation of the city of the Pelusians, of year 13
Reverse design young Horus of Mount Kasion/Zeus Kasios, standing, left, wearing hem-hem crown, half naked, holding pomegranate in right hand, left hand lowered along the body; before him, child (Harpocrates ?), left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 37 mm
Average weight 25.35 g
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cologne M. Jungfleisch, Bulletin de l’Institut d’Égypte 36.2, 1954, p. 321 fig. 1: reads ΠΗΛΟΥCΙΟΥΤωΝ ΠΟΛΕωC = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 164, 2008, fig. 9 p. 297
2 2     ✸ Matthijs, ex DS11091, pl. 309 = Naville 37, 28 Jan. 2018, lot 425