Details
LOT 3509
Trajan AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 17 (AD 113/4).
Laureate head to right / Hemhem crown, L I-Z (date) below. RPC III 4820; Dattari (Savio) 7221; Emmett 707.17. Near Very Fine.(1.41gr, 15mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Footnotes
The Hemhem crown was an ornate triple Atef with corkscrew sheep horns and usually two uraeus. The Egyptian word Hemhem means to shout, cry out, possibly indicating that the Hemhem crown represented a battle horn.
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