RPC III, 293

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 293
Province Achaea
Region Peloponnesus
City Patras
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Aelius (Caesar)
Dating AD 137
Obverse inscription L AELIO CA-ESAR TR P COS II
Edition L(ucio) Aelio Caesar Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) Co(n)s(ul) II
Translation to Lucius Aelius Caesar, with tribunician power, consul for the second time
Obverse design bare head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription COL A A PATRENS
Edition col(onia) A(ugusta) A(chaica) Patrens(is)
Translation Colony of Augustan Achaia of Patras
Reverse design Juno (?) seated left on throne with high back, her arms stretched right and left, holding pomegranate (?) in right and Victory (?) in left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 7.61 g
Reference NCP 79–80/9 and pl. Q, XVIII
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: I-B NCP, pl. Q, XVIII rev.
2 2     Corinth: 85-68 Hesperia 55.2, 1986, pl. 37, 41