RPC III, 4398.1

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 4398.1
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L ΙΓ = year 13
Dating AD 109/10
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, draped and cuirassed, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΙΓ
Edition ἔτους ιγʹ (ἔτους) ιγʹ
Translation of year 13
Reverse design Harpocrates of Hermopolis seated, left, holding sceptre; to left and right, animal on garlanded altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 24.34 g
Axis 11, 12
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
Note Dattari identified the animal as an ichneumon. D909bis has the same rev. design, and is described as year 10. But no large bronzes are known for that year; there might well be the remains of another numeral to the right of the figure, and the half-length bust suggests a coin of year 16-18. However, Harpocrates with an altar to either side seems to occur only in year 13. It has been included with the coins of Uncertain Year: see 4974.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1259 SNG 1081
2 2     ✸ NY: 1944.100.55357
3 3     DS7055