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Image of specimen #2 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2543 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | III |
Number | 2543 |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Sardis |
Region | Lydia |
City | Saitta |
Reign | Hadrian |
Person (obv.) | Hadrian (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Claudius Machairion (archon) |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹ |
Edition | Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Τρα(ϊανὸς) Ἁδριανός Καῖσαρ Σεβασ(τὸς) |
Translation | Emperor Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus |
Obverse design | laureate and draped bust of Hadrian, right, seen from rear |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠΙ ΚΛ ΜΑΧΑΙΡΙ[ΩΝΟϹ] ΑΡΧ ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ |
Edition | ἐπὶ Κλ(αυδίου) Μαχαιρίωνος ἄρχ(οντος) Σαϊττηνῶν |
Translation | under Claudius Machairion archon, of the Saittians |
Reverse design | Roma helmeted seated left on shield with parazonium, holding Nike with wreath on her extended right hand, transverse spear in left |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 31 mm |
Average weight | 15.19 g |
Axis | 6 |
Reference | Winterthur 3886 |
Specimens | 2 (0 in the core collections) |
Die-links | 1: same obv. die as 2543A/1–2. |
Note | P. Weiss, 'Hadrian in Lydien', Chiron 25 (1995), pp. 213-24, suggests that the coins of Macharion from Saitta refer to an imperial visit to the city in 124. |