RPC III, 249

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 249
Province Achaea
Region Corinthia
City Corinth
Reign Hadrian
Issue Coinage without imperial portrait; Asses
Dating AD 128/38
Obverse inscription
Obverse design Ηead of Aphrodite (?), with earring and necklace, right, hair brought back and tied behind, leaving loose ends
Reverse inscription COL L IVL COR
Reverse design Bellerophon riding Pegasus flying right, slaying with spear Chimaera, left beneath him
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 12
Reference NCP 13–14/4, Fox 26
Specimens 18 (13 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3–7, 9, 11–17: same pair of dies.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 693 (and pl. XXIII, 13)
2 2     L BMC 694
3 3     L: 1920,0805.1179 (Fox)
4 4     L: 1949,0411.628
5 5     O: Milne 1927
6 6     P: 662
7 7     P: 663
8 8     ✸ Marseille
9 9     Cop SNG 298
10 10     A: 4004α
11 11     V: GR 13428
12 12     B: a.B.
13 13     B: P-O
14 14     B: Löbb.
15 15     NY: 1956.174.61
16 16     Formerly Franke coll.
17 17     Lanz Münzen von Korinth Sammlung BCD, 26 nov. 2001, lot 637
18 18     Münster: 1241