RPC III, 1226

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1226
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Paphlagonia
City Sinope
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Year 182
Dating AD 136/7
Obverse inscription IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIANO AVG P P
Edition Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Traian(o) Hadriano Aug(usto) P(atri) P(atriae)
Translation to Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus father of the fatherland
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription C I F ANN CLXXXII
Edition c(olonia) I(ulia) F(elix) ann(o) CLXXXII
Translation the Julian colony of Felix, in the year 182
Reverse design bearded head in archaistic style of Bacchus; on either side, two small genii
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Average weight 26.81 g
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note This type appears in full on coins of Septimius Severus (Rec 123 and Lacroix, Les reproductions de statues sur les monnaies grecques, pp. 88-9 and Pl. V,7: "l’image de Dionysos…a tous les caractères d’une idole primitive")
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Kagan coll.
2 2     ✸ Waddell 1, 9 Dec. 1982, lot 83