RPC III, 297

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 297
Province Achaea
Region Peloponnesus
Subregion Achaea
City Elis
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Group I
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ- ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟ (sic)
Nominative Imperator Hadrianus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription ΗΛΕΙ-ωΝ
Reverse design Zeus naked standing right, his legs slightly bent, holding thunderbolt in outstretched right, eagle on his outstretched left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 17 mm
Reference Liegle Taf III, 5: rev.
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     A: 1894/95 E’ 153
2 2     A: 1894/95 E’ 150
3 3     A: 4199κδ
4 4     Elis excavations ( = M. Karamesinè-Oikonomidou p. 73, nο. 28 and Pl. 5, 18)
5 5     ✸ Leu 90, Coins of Olympia. The BCD collection, 10 May 2004, lot 319