RPC III, 315

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 315
Province Achaea
Region Peloponnesus
Subregion Achaea
City Elis
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ-ΤωΡ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Ἁδριανός
Translation Emperor Hadrian
Obverse design bare-headed draped bust of Hadrian, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΗΛΕΙωΝ
Edition Ἠλείων
Translation of the Eleans
Reverse design agonistic table on which wreath, amphora and palm-branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.84 g
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)
Note See F. Wojan, 'La table de Kôlôtès', BSFN 78.07 (Sept. 2023), pp. 275-80
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A: 1911-12 ΞE’ 50 Tselekas 40
2 2     A: 4406 (under Argos and Antoninus Pius)
3 3     B: 1919/1 Olympia-Funde Franke 1984a, p. 21, Abb. 31 = Franke 1984b, Taf. 50, 11 rev.
4 4     B: 1919/1 Olympia-Funde Liegle Taf. V, 3, obv. and Taf. VI, 7, rev. = B. Weisser, ‘Pergamum as Paradigm’, Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces 2005, pl. 11.4, 36
5 5     B: oN