RPC III, 184


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Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	184
Province	Achaea
Region	Corinthia
City	Corinth
Reign	Hadrian
Person (obv.)	Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue	Asses
Dating	AD 117/28
Obverse inscription	IMP CAE TRAI-ANV HADR AV
Edition	Imp(erator) Cae(sar) Traianu(s) Hadr(ianus) Au(gustus)
Translation	Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design	laureate bust of Hadrian, right, with paludamentum
Reverse inscription	COL L IVL COR
Edition	Col(onia) L(aus) Iul(ia) Cor(inthiensium)
Translation	Colony of Laus Iulia of the Corinthians
Reverse design	Isthmus seated on rock, left, right hand resting on inverted rudder
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	21 mm
Average weight	6.35 g
Reference	NCP 14/6 and pl. C, XXXIX
Specimens	2 (1 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			L	BMC 590	21.2	6.35		BMC 590 reads IMP NE TRAI-ANVM ADR, as well as Edwards 114 (IMP NE TRAIANV…). The correct reading was given by Walbank, Aspects…, p. 341, n 24, though she omits the last letters AV	Show
2	2				Corinth (Edwards 115 and pl. III, 115, rev.)					Show