RPC III, 4294.9

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 4294.9
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IB = year 12
Dating AD 108/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate half-length nude bust of Trajan, right, with aegis on left shoulder (?)
Reverse inscription L ΙΒ
Reverse design Emperor (Trajan) standing in quadriga, right, laureate-headed, wearing toga, holding eagle-tipped sceptre and branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note The date is difficult to read. The large bust might suggest years 16-18, but there is so much space before ΤΡΑΙΑΝ the obv. must surely be with ΚΑΙ. This obv. inscription is frequent in year 13, but the large bust does not occur then. The obv. inscription occurs on one other coin of year 12, with Kalathos in ox biga 4306.3. So year 12 seems the most likely. But confirmation required.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Brussels: 390