RPC III, 249


Image of specimen #8

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	249
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	Bellerophon riding Pegasus flying right, slaying with spear Chimaera, left beneath him
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	23 mm
Average weight	6.44 g
Axis	12
Reference	NCP 13–14/4, Fox 26
Specimens	18 (13 in the core collections)
Die-links	1, 3–7, 9, 11–17: same pair of dies.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	L	BMC 693 (and pl. XXIII, 13)		6.29		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
2	2	L	BMC 694		6.54		different style	Show
3	3	L: 1920,0805.1179 (Fox)			7.68		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
4	4	L: 1949,0411.628			6.20		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
5	5	O: Milne 1927			5.91		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
6	6	P: 662			5.97		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
7	7	P: 663			5.78		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
8	8 ✸	Marseille		23	6.29		different style	Show
9	9	Cop	SNG 298		6.52		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
10	10	A: 4004α		24	8.71		large flan	Show
11	11	V: GR 13428			7.23		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
12	12	B: a.B.			5.57		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
13	13	B: P-O		23	6.79		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
14	14	B: Löbb.			5.80		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
15	15	NY: 1956.174.61			6.32	12	R of CO-R is inverted	Show
16	16		Formerly Franke coll.		5.11		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
17	17		Lanz Münzen von Korinth Sammlung BCD, 26 nov. 2001, lot 637		7.66		R of CO-R is inverted	Show
18	18	Münster: 1241		22.1	5.60	12		Show