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	colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensium 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)

#	Specimen	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