RPC III, 1247

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 1247
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Pontus
City Amisus
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Year 163 (ΡΞΓ)
Dating AD 131/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ Π Π ΥΠ Γ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Τρα(ιανὸς) Αδριανὸς Σεβ(αστὸς) π(ατὴρ) π(ατρίδος) ὕπ(άτος) γ´
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, father of the fatherland, consul for the third time
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Hadrian, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΞΓ
Edition Ἀμίσου ἐλευθέρας ἔτους ρξγʹ
Translation of free Amisus, of year 163
Reverse design turreted Tyche seated left, right resting on rudder on head, left, holding cornucopia on left arm
Metal silver
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 5.66 g
Axis 6
Reference Rec. 81, Nordbø 1b, 7–17
Specimens 19 (10 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 85 (and pl. IV, 7)
2 2     P: A 3964
3 3     P: 1150 Rec pl. VIII, 28 rev.
4 4     P: 1984/717
5 5     Mu
6 6     V: GR 15108 ZfN 20 (1897), Taf. IX, 6
7 7     V: GR 34796
8 8     B: I-B
9 9     B: I-B MG 227/4 = ZfN 20 (1897), Taf. IX, 5
10 10     A: BG NP 1545
11 11     W 85328
12 12     Istanbul Nordbø pl. 1, 16
13 13     NY: 1968.57.74
14 14     MM FPL 244, June 1964, lot 21 (ex Kricheldorf 3, 25–26 Feb. 1957, lot 1208)
15 15     DNW 29 Sept. 2008, lot 5808
16 16     Freeman and Sear MBS 17, 15 Dec. 2009, lot 337 (ex CNG MBS 51, Lynn coll., 15 Sept. 1999, lot 853 part of)
17 17     Gorny & Mosch 204, 5 Mar. 2012, lot 1739 (ex Helios 5, 25 June 2010, lot 269; Gorny & Mosch 196, 7–9 Mar. 2011, lot 2075)
18 18     ✸ Leu EA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2524 = ETB coll., Auctiones GmbH e 45, 21 Feb. 2016, lot 65
19 19     R. Pudill coll. (ex Savoca 197 Blue Auction, 24 Feb. 2024, lot 264)