RPC III, 3335

 

Image of specimen #12

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3335
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Aegeae
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Year 164 (ΔΞΡ)
Dating AD 117/18
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, with drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΑΙΓΕΑΙΩΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΔΞΡ
Reverse design Amaltheia standing facing, head right, holding cornucopia in right hand and infant Zeus presenting her with wreath in left; at her feet, right, (or left), goat kneeling, head turned back
Metal silver
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 6, 12
Reference Levante 1713–4; Prieur 716, Haymann 40a, 40c
Specimens 13 (3 in the core collections)
Note No distinction was made between broad coins struck on thin flans and small coins struck on thick flans; 10: at l., goat kneeling l., head reverted; At least 65 coins in the hoard. 3335-3338: 9.88g (182) [7 obv. dies]

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1991/590 SNG 2328
2 2     L: 1991,0130.66
3 3     O
4 4     Levante 1713
5 5     CNG MBS 69, 8 June 2005, lot 1059 ( = Lorber/Michaels B) = CNG EA 441, 3 Apr. 2019, lot 318 (ex Prieur coll.)
6 6     CNG MBS 69, 8 June 2005, lot 1060–60, 9.26; CNG MBS 70, 21 Sept. 2005, lot 561 (ex Levante 1714 = vA 5450)
7 7     Freeman and Sear FPL 11, Spring/Summer 2006, lot 194
8 8     Gorny & Mosch 152, 9–10 Oct. 2006, lot 182
9 9     Gorny & Mosch 152, 9–10 Oct. 2006, lot 1825 ( = Lorber/Michaels C, E)
10 10     Lanz 135, 21 May 2007, lot 679 = CNG EA 441, 3 Apr. 2019, lot 319 (ex Prieur coll.)
11 11     Lanz 135, 21 May 2007, lot 690 = Lanz 135, 21 May 2007, lot 690
12 12     ✸ Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2625 = ETB coll. = CNG EA 375, 1 June 2016, lot 562 = CNG 165, 1 Aug. 2012, lot 155 = Gorny & Mosch 200, 10 Oct. 2011, lot 2223 = Haymann 75 = Lanz 135, 21 May 2007, lot 691
13 13     CGT coll.