RPC III, 336

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 336
Province Achaea
Region Peloponnesus
Subregion Laconia
City Sparta
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτο(κράτωρ) Καῖσαρ Τραϊ(ανὸς) Ἁδριανὸς Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, with drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙωΝ
Edition Λακεδαιμονίων
Translation of the Lacedaemonians
Reverse design club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 5.77 g
Axis 2, 3
Reference Grunauer group XXXVIII, series 1–7
Specimens 35 (2 in the core collections)
Note On rev., ΛΑ-ΚΕ/ΔΑ-ΙΜΟ/ΝΙ-ⲰΝ (Grunauer a) or ΛΑ-ΚΕ/ΔΑΙ-ΜΟ/ΝΙ-ⲰΝ (Grunauer b) or ΛΑ-ΚΕ/ΔΑ-ΙΜ/ΟΝ-ΙⲰ/Ν (Grunauer -)
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1969.133.2
2 2     P: 1933
3 3 –30     see Grunauer
31 31     ✸ CNG MBS 81/2, The BCD Collection of Coins of the Peloponnesos Part II, 20 May 2009, lot 2861
32 32     LHS 96, BCD coll., 8–9 May 2006, lot 939.4
33 33     CNG MBS 81/2, The BCD Collection of Coins of the Peloponnesos Part II, 20 May 2009, lot 2860
34 34     Savoca 106th Blue, 26 June 2021, lot 483
35 35     C. Jackson-Jacobs coll. = Nomos Obolos 33 (11 Sep. 2024), 782, J. Aiello coll. (ex BCD coll., previously N. Petsalis coll.) = Grunauer XXXVIII, 9 (ex. 1, cited as “BCD 158,” not illustrated)