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
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, r., nude and with aegis on l. shoulder
Reverse inscription ΠΗΛΟΥϹΙⲰΤⲰΝ ΠΟΛΕⲰϹ, L ΙΓ
Reverse design young Horus of Mount Kasion/Zeus Kasios, standing, l., wearing hem-hem crown, half naked, holding pomegranate in r. hand, l. hand lowered along the body; before him, child (Harpocrates ?), l.
Metal Æ
Average diameter 37 mm
Average weight 25.35 g
Specimens 2
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Number Museum Bibliography
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     ✸ Matthijs, ex DS11091, pl. 309 = Naville 37, 28 Jan. 2018, lot 425