RPC III, 3829

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3829
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tripolis
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Year 428
Dating AD 117
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, r,. With drapery on shoulder
Reverse inscription ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΗΚΥ
Reverse design draped busts of the Dioscuri jugate, right; each wearing laureate pileus surmounted by star
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 1695, BMC 48
Specimens 47 (38 in the core collections)
Note 11 and 13 have the misspelling ΤΡΑΙΝΟϹ (sic: same die (cf. Ptolemais 4396).

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 48
2 2     L BMC 49
3 3     L BMC 50
4 4     L BMC 51
5 5     ✸ L BMC 52
6 6     L BMC 53
7 7     L BMC 54
8 8     L BMC 55
9 9     P: 1909
10 10     P: 1910
11 11     P: 1911
12 12     P: 1912
13 13     B: I-B
14 14     B: Fox
15 15     B: oN
16 16     B: Friedländer
17 17     B: Bonnett
18 18     B: 5349
19 19     Cop SNG 279
20 20     Cop SNG 280
21 21     G: 3279
22 22     G: 3280
23 23     O
24 24     O
25 25     O
26 26     C: Leake 2695
27 27     C: Leake 2696 SNG 6069
28 28     NY: 1944.10072571
29 29     NY: 1944.10072572
30 30     NY: 1944.10072573
31 31     NY: 1944.10072574
32 32     NY: 1965.168.43
33 33     NY: 1950.90.4
34 34     NY: 1961.154.294
35 35     NY: 1948.19.2275
36 36     NY: 1992.54.1188
37 37     NY: 1992.54.1189
38 38     Pudill coll.
39 39     Boersema 2537
40 40     CNG 189 (2008) lot 124 (‘Trajan’)
41 41     CNG MBS 57 (2001) lot 896
42 42 –44     Rouvier, including Rouvier pl. III.3
43 43     T. Buggey coll., ex CNG EA 354, 1 July 2015, lot 408 = Agora Auctions Numismatic 74, 5 June 2018, lot 156
44 44     V: GR 22250
45 45     Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2751 = ETB coll.