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III, 1783
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1783
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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 ϹΑΒ
Ε
ΙΝΑ Ϲ
Ε
ΒΑϹΤΗ
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 ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛ
Ε
ΙΤΩΝ Ϲ
ΤΡ
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.
Specimens of this coin type
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Number
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Reverse
Museum
Bibliography
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Weight
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1
1
✸
B: Fox
ex Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, Boyne coll., 25 May 1868, lot 27 =
LS
Taf II, 14
33.9
in the auction catalogue of the Boyne’s collection, the end of the legend was read as CΙΛΙΤΕCA
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