

Egypt. Alexandria. Trajan, AD 98-117. Drachm (Bronze, 35.27 mm, 26.29 g). RY 13 = AD circa 109/110. [AYT] TPAIAN CEB [ΓEPM ΔAKIK] Laureate bust right, aegis on left shoulder. Rev. Harpocrates of Pelusium standing right, holding caduceus and raising arm; to left and right, basis on which Jug and paniskos statuette. In the field, L-IΓ (date). RPC 4400.1.2. (this coin). Dattari-Savio Pl. 41, 907 (this coin). Rare. Attractive brown tone. Good Very Fine.
From the Dattari Collection. Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 45, 09.12.2018, lot 276.
Here is a bronze drachm of Trajan, belonging to the famous Dattari collection, of great rarity and preservation and particularly of superior artistic quality as for the style and for the historical value of the scene portrayed on the reverse which combines Greek-Roman-Egyptian theology to the Hellenistic sculpture through the representation of Hermes-Harpokrates of Pelusium, naked standing upright and sinuous of immediate derivation from Praxitelic sculpture that we also find in the next no. 218 of the collection with a similar but different identification of Hermes. This is an obvious Roman reproduction of an original Praxiteles statue with an unmistakable style.
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