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III, 5316
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
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https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5316
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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 Ϲ
Ε
Β
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; to r crescent
Reverse inscription
L Ϛ
Edition
ἔτους ϛʹ
(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)
Specimens of this coin type
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Specimen
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Reverse
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1
1
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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
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