RPC III, 5277

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 5277
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue L E = year 5
Dating AD 120/1
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ - ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΕΛΠΙϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ, L Ε
Reverse design Elpis standing facing, head left, holding flower
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note Cited by A. Barb, review of Vogt, NZ 17 (1924), pp. 109-14, at p. 111, no. 27 as ‘ƐΛΠIC CƐΒΑCΤΗ; Elpis stehend l., L S (?)’; but the date is not very clear and Barb allowed that it might have been 5 or 9. The rev. design with inscription is not otherwise attested for Hadrian (but is for Trajan, years 16, 18 and 20). To us, it looks most like E = 5. Someone (a long time ago) has written L Θ?’ on the ticket.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ V: GR 24262
2 2     DS Supp. 72 = Naville 50, 23 June 2019, lot 262