RPC III, 2330

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2330
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Cibyra
Region Phrygia
City Laodicea ad Lycum
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Magistrate Agrippinus (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟϹ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Olympius
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription ΑΓΡΗΠΠΙΝΟϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓΩΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ
Reverse design Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, head left, holding eagle in his extended right hand, left resting on sceptre; on left, Hera wearing kalathos, standing right, resting on sceptre with her right hand; on right, Athena standing left, with peplos and helmet, holding olive branch in her lowered right hand, spear and shield in left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 37 mm
Axis 6
Reference SNG G 1941
Specimens 8 (6 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     G SNG 1941 = Hunter II, 491/10 and pl. LVII, 3 rev.
2 2     P: 1555
3 3     V: GR 19906
4 4     V: GR 19907
5 5     B: 5412
6 6     B: Löbb.
7 7     ✸ MM Deutschland 16, Righetti coll., 19–20 May 2005, lot 557 (ex MM 41, 18-19 June 1970, lot 477; MM Numismatics Ltd I, 7 Dec. 1997, lot 211)
8 8     CNG EA 300, 10 Apr. 2013, lot 155 (ex CNG EA 123, 28 Sept. 2005, lot 100)