RPC III, 1930A

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1930A
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Aeolis
City Cyme
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Magistrate Papias Quin(tus?) (strategos)
Alliance with Myrina
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ
Obverse design laureate head bust of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΠΑΠΙΟΥ ΚΟΙΝ[ ], ΚΥ ΜΥ
Reverse design cult statue of Ephesian Artemis (with supports), facing; and figure standing facing, head left, holding sceptre (?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Axis 6
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note KY = Cyme, which uses Ephesian Artemis as a type. MY = Myrina, which is the mostl  ikely as it is so close, and there are several Kyme-Myrina 'alliance ' coins for Nerva etc. RPC 1929, formerly of Cyme and now reattributed to Myrina, has asimilar figure on the left, i.e. Myrina, side (whoever it is). As Cyme is on the left on this coin, it should be an issue of Cyme. ΕΠΙ ΣΤΡΑ ΠΑΠΙΟΥ is clear, as is the following ΚΟΙΝ[ ], which is presumably another name, but its ending is unclear. The next letter may perhaps be a Ε. LGPN for koin*: http://clas-lgpn5.classics.ox.ac.uk:8080/exist/apps/lgpn1-search/index.html?name=koin* has various possibilities, of which only KOINEYC (genitive KOINEOY) would fit, but it seems astrange name and is known only from Athens in the C4/C3 BC. The next letter does not look like a T, which would have more, plausible, possibilities.
Addition Additional coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ R. Pudill coll. (ex Gorny & Mosch 276, 19 Apr. 2021 (P. Weiss), lot 331)