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Image of specimen #76 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/335 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | III |
Number | 335 |
Province | Achaea |
Region | Peloponnesus |
Subregion | Laconia |
City | Sparta |
Reign | Hadrian |
Person (obv.) | Hadrian (Augustus) |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥΤ(Ο) ΚΑΙ(ϹΑΡ) ΤΡΑΙ(Α) ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ(ΑϹ) |
Edition | Αὐτο(κράτωρ) Καῖσαρ Τραϊα(νὸς) Ἁδριανὸς Σεβασ(τός) |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus |
Obverse design | laureate and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right (sometimes with paludamentum) |
Reverse inscription | ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ (or -ωΝ) |
Edition | Λακεδαιμονίων |
Translation | of the Lacedaemonians |
Reverse design | the Dioscuri on horseback to right |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 26 mm |
Average weight | 11.70 g |
Axis | 2, 4, 9, 12 |
Reference | Grunauer group XXXVII, series 1–11 |
Specimens | 78 (1 in the core collections) |
Note | Grunauer identified 17 different obverse dies whose legends, when it was possible to check, was not always correctly read. Here are the legends of 9 out of the 17 obverse legends which could be checked; V1: ΑΥΤΟ KAICΑΡ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ; V4 corr: ΑΥΤ KAI ΤΡΑΙΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ; + LHS 96 Coins of Peloponnesos The BCD collection, 8-9 May 2006, lot 937 (obverse legend wrongly read), 9.68; V5 corr: ΑΥΤ KAI ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ; + LHS 96 Coins of Peloponnesos The BCD collection, 8-9 May 2006, lot 939.1, 9.23; CNG MBS 81, 20 May 2009, lots 2855-6, 10.42, 10.36; V7: ΑΥΤ KAI ΤΡΑΙΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC C; + CNG MBS 81, 20 May 2009, lot 2857, 7.51; + ETB (ex Davissons 32, 6 June 2013, lot 86), 10.12 after CNG MBS 81; V10: ΑΥΤ KAI ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ; + LHS 96 Coins of Peloponnesos The BCD collection, 8-9 May 2006, lot 939.2, 9.99; V11 corr.: [ΑΥ]ΤΟ KAICΑΡ ΤΡΑΙΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒΑ[C] + A Zarifis coll. 32, 11.25; V12: ΑΥΤΟ KAICΑΡ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒΑC; + Santamaria, Magnaguti III, 26 June 1950, lot 692 + CNG MBS 81, 20 May 2009, lot 2858, 12.01; V13 corr.: ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹ; V16 corr.: ΑΥΤΟ KAICΑΡ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ |
Correction | Corrected coin-type (post publication) |