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 Imperatori Caesari Traiano Hadriano Augusto Patri Patriae 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 colonia Iulia Felix anno CLXXXII 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

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