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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7835779, member: 110350&quot;]Trajan, AE Drachm, Year 15 (111/112 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate bust right, nude and with aegis on left shoulder, ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ / Rev. Emperor (Trajan), laureate and togate, standing in elephant quadriga, right. holding eagle-tipped sceptre and branch; first three elephants with trunks turned down at end and fourth elephant with trunk turned up; in exergue, L IE (Year 15). RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 4605.4 (2015); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4605.4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4605.4" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4605.4</a> ; Emmett 462.15 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Dattari (Savio) 769 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 512 at p. 61 [Pool, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London, 1892)]; Milne 669 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay)]; K&amp;G 27.389 [Kampmann, Ursula &amp; Granschow, Thomas, <i>Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria</i> (2008)]. 33.5 mm., 21.26 g. <i>Purchased from Odysseus-Numismatique, Montpellier, France, June 2021.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/alexandrie-trajan-drachme-2-jpg.1326891/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Next: another Roman Provincial depicting one or more elephants.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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