RPC III, 5316


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	5316
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Hadrian
Person (obv.)	Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue	L Ϛ = year 6
Dating	AD 121/2
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ - ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Edition	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; to r crescent
Reverse inscription	L Ϛ
Edition	(ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation	of year 6
Reverse design	Dionysus (?) standing facing, head left, holding uncertain object (cup?) and long thyrsus; to left, panther (?)
Metal	silver
Average diameter	24 mm
Average weight	10.72 g
Axis	12
Specimens	1 (1 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			NY: 1973.56.602		24	10.72	12	the plausible identitification of the figure as Dionysus with a thyrsus was made to us by Keith Emmett	Show