RPC III, 247


Image of specimen #4

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	247
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; very little of the fluted shaft is shown
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	21 mm
Average weight	6.39 g
Reference	NCP 19/14 and pl. E, LXXVI, Fox 25
Specimens	5 (3 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Note	More
1	1	L	BMC 692		6.55		Show
2	2	P: 658			5.29		Show
3	3	B: I-B			7.16		Show
4	4 ✸		Aiello coll.	21		ex Hirsch 118, 20-22 Nov. 1979, lot 570; Lanz Münzen von Korinth Sammlung BCD, 26 nov. 2001, lot 643: no indication of weight. The reverse is said to be from the same reverse die as NCP pl. E, LXXVI: it is in fact the coin illustrated in NCP, once in St Florian	Show
5	5		MünzZentrum 119, 14–16 Jan. 2004, lot 149		6.57		Show