RPC III, 259

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 259
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 C L I COR
Edition C(olonia) L(aus)Iul(ia) Cor(inthiensium)
Translation Colony of Laus Iulia of the Corinthians
Reverse design Tyche (?) standing facing, head left, holding patera over lighted altar in right hand, left resting on rudder
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.34 g
Axis 3
Reference Fox 37
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
Note This type was assigned by Fox to the reign of Septimius Severus because of the short reverse legend C L I COR. However, obverse die links between this series and others prove that Fox 37 dates from Hadrian’s reign
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 655 Fox pl. I, 21 (24 errore, p. 15)
2 2     NY: 1944.100.37212
3 3     ✸ Corinth: 70-174 Hesperia XLI, 3 (1972), pp. 326–7, 49 and pl. 64, 49