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III, 5117A
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
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https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5117A
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Volume
III
Number
5117A
Province
Egypt
Region
Egypt
City
Alexandria
Reign
Hadrian
Person (obv.)
Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue
L B = year 2
Dating
AD 117/18
Obverse inscription
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ Ϲ
Ε
Β
Edition
Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Τραϊανὸς Ἁδριανὸς Σεβ(αστός)
Translation
Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design
laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription
L Β
Edition
(ἔτους) βʹ
Translation
of year 2
Reverse design
Zeus reclining left, holding sceptre and thunderbolt and sceptre
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
33 mm
Average weight
21.51 g
Axis
12
Specimens
1 (0 in the core collections)
Note
Identification as Zeus not certain: confirmation required
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1
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ETB coll., ex Naville 57, 2020, lot 265
33
21.51
12
catalogued as Nilus, but the figure seems to be holding a thunderbolt. Same obv. die as 5025, 5094, 5106
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