RPC III, 5017

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 5017
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue L B = year 2
Dating AD 117/18
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΝΟϹ (sic) ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Τραϊ<α>νὸς Ἁδριανός
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder (unbearded)
Reverse inscription L Β
Edition (ἔτους) βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design Emperor (Hadrian) standing in quadriga, right, laureate-headed, wearing toga, holding eagle-tipped sceptre and branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 19.89 g
Axis 12
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Note NY 1944.100.57245 also looks unbearded, but is too worn for certainty; obv. inscription illegible.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.57244
2 2     Vat: 389
3 3     Münzhandlung Basel 6 (1936) lot 316
4 4     ✸ Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2771 = ETB coll., ex CNG 100, 7 Oct. 2015, lot 1779