RPC III, 6385

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6385
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Memphite (nome of Lower Egypt)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΝΟΜΟϹ ΜΕΝΦΕΙΤΗϹ, L ΙΓ
Reverse design Isis standing, right, wearing the vulture headdress, holding long sceptre in right hand, and Apis bull standing, right, in left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 2, 5: same rev. die.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Alexandria
2 2     ✸ D6297 (rev. illus.in D, pl. XXXIV), DS pl. 303 = Naville 48, 7 Apr. 2019, lot 317
3 3 –4     DS11006–7, pl. 304
5 5     Aiello = Mabbott 3745 (‘Sarapis’; year uncertain).