RPC III, 5397


Image of specimen #2

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	5397
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Hadrian
Person (obv.)	Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue	L Z = year 7
Dating	AD 122/3
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
Reverse inscription	L Ζ
Edition	(ἔτους) ζʹ
Translation	year 7
Reverse design	jugate busts of radiate Sarapis, wearing kalathos and laurel wreath, and Isis, crowned with taenia, disc and horns, right
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Average weight	18.51 g
Specimens	3 (1 in the core collections)
Note	Perhaps also A 1923, kept with coins of year 4, but year illegible. It has this obv. inscription: i.e. it must be a coin of years 4-8, but the obv. design is not (yet) attested for other years in this period. DS7781 also has this rev. design and obv. inscription.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Note	More
1	1	P: 1514					Show
2	2 ✸	Milan	SNG 973	33		perhaps also DS7792 and A 1923 (both date illegible; but obv. of years 4-8). DS7793 has a later obv. of years 17-20	Show
3	3		DS 7792 = Naville Numismatics 53, 3 Nov. 2019, lot 289	34.6	18.51		Show