RPC III, 3245

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3245
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Trachea
City Pompeiopolis
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Sabina (Augusta)
Issue Year 197 (ΖϘΡ)
Dating AD 131/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ (?) ΑΔ-ΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑ, Π Π (in field)
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Ἁδριανὸς Σεβα(στὸς) Π(ατὴρ) Π(ατρίδος)
Translation Emperor Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Father of the Fatherland
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒ ΠΟΜΠΗΙ ΖϘΡ, Α-Υ (in field)
Edition Σαβεῖνα Σεβ(αστὴ) Πομπηϊ(οπολειτῶν) ζϙρ' Αὐ(γοῦστα?)
Translation Sabina Augusta, of the Pompeiopolitans, (year) 197, (Augusta?)
Reverse design diademed and draped bust of Sabina, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 11.23 g
Axis 12
Reference Lindgren A1602A
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–4: same obv. die.
Note ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ changed to ϹΕΒ; obv. Legend tentatively completed from the new /5 (still not entirely clear)
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Yale: 2004.6.3430
2 2     Lindgren A1602A
3 3     Pegasi XII, 3 May 2005, lot 298 (ex Lindgren III, 872; CNG MBS 35, 20 Sept. 1995, lot 1121, 11.02 (attributed to Mopsus by CNG))
4 4     CNG MBS 43, 24 Sept. 1997, lot 1022
5 5     ✸ Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2647 = ETB coll., ex Naumann 62, 4 Feb. 2018, lot 606