RPC III, 255

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 255
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 Tyche standing, left, holding patera in right hand and cornucopia in left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 6.71 g
Reference Fox 30
Specimens 4 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1922,0317.105 (Weber)
2 2     ✸ P: Delepierre Walbank, Aspects...p. 347, fig. 20.13.2
3 3     Cop SNG 300
4 4     Lanz Münzen von Korinth Sammlung BCD, 26 Nov. 2001, lot 636 (ex Merzbacher 15 Nov. 1910, lot 521)