RPC III, 6405

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6405
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Saite (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, draped and cuirassed, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ϹΑΕΙΤΗϹ ΝΟΜΟϹ, L ΙΒ
Edition Σαείτης νομὸς (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation Saite nome, of year 12
Reverse design Neith/Athena standing, left, wearing helmet and aegis, holding crocodile (?), right, in right hand, small figure of Nike, left, in left hand; owl at her feet, left, in right field
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Average weight 26.66 g
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note A coin in Naples (Santangelo 12176), attributed to the Coptite nome in the catalogue, and dated year 12, belongs to one of these three series.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Frankfurt: 1376 Geissen & Weber, ZPE 155, 2006, fig. 4 p. 296
2 2     DS pl. LV 397 (not on pl. 309–310)