RPC III, 246

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 246
Province Achaea
Region Corinthia
City Corinth
Reign Hadrian
Issue Coinage without imperial portrait; Asses
Dating AD 128/38
Obverse inscription
Obverse design Ηead of Aphrodite (?), with earring and necklace, right, hair brought back and tied behind, leaving loose ends
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 lioness standing, left, over prostrate ram, on capital of Doric column, part of the fluted shaft of which is shown
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 9.22 g
Reference NCP 19/14 and pl. E, LXXIV, Fox 25
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 657 Walbank, Aspects...p. 347, fig. 20.13.4
2 2     Cop SNG 294 = NCP, pl. E, LXXIV rev.
3 3     Corinth: 83-217 Hesperia 53 1984, p. 112, no. 18 and pl. 31, 18 rev.