RPC III, 1783

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 1783
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Lydia
City Stratonicea Hadrianopolis
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus) ; Sabina (Augusta)
Magistrate Candidus II (strategos)
Dating c. 128–30
Obverse inscription ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΤΙϹΤΗϹ ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Edition Ἁδριανὸς Κτίστης Σαβεῖνα Σεβαστή
Translation Hadrian the Founder, Sabina Augusta
Obverse design confronted head of Hadrian to left looking right and bust of Sabina to right looking left : Hadrian is laureate, Sabina is draped, with hair coiled and piled on top of head above double stephane
Reverse inscription ΚΑΝΔΙΔΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ϹΤΡ ΑΙΤΗϹΑ
Edition Κανδίδου Ἁδριανοπολειτῶν στρ(ατηγοῦ) αἰτησα(μένου)
Translation of Candidus, of the Hadrianopolitans, the strategos having requested
Reverse design Dionysus naked standing facing, head left, holding cantharus in right hand, left resting on thyrsus; at his feet, left, panther left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Reference LS 14
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note On the problem of the meaning of the word ΑΙΤΗΣΑΜΕΝΟΣ, see RPC II, pp. 1-2, and General Introduction, chapter 4.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: Fox ex Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, Boyne coll., 25 May 1868, lot 27 = LS Taf II, 14