RPC III, 5277

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 5277
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue L E = year 5
Dating AD 120/1
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ - ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τραϊανὸς Ἁδριανὸς Σεβαστός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Τραϊ(ανὸς) Ἁδρια(νὸς) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΕΛΠΙϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ, L Ε
Edition Ἐλπὶς Σεβαστὴ ἔτους εʹ Ἐλπὶς Σεβαστὴ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation Augustan Hope, of year 5
Reverse design Elpis standing facing, head left, holding flower
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 17.92 g
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note Cited by A. Barb, review of Vogt, NZ 17 (1924), pp. 109-14, at p. 111, no. 27 as ‘ƐΛΠIC CƐΒΑCΤΗ; Elpis stehend l., L S (?)’; but the date is not very clear and Barb allowed that it might have been 5 or 9. The rev. design with inscription is not otherwise attested for Hadrian (but is for Trajan, years 16, 18 and 20). To us, it looks most like E = 5. Someone (a long time ago) has written L Θ?’ on the ticket.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ V: GR 24262
2 2     DS Supp. 72 = Naville 50, 23 June 2019, lot 262