RPC III, 5723

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 5723
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue L ΔWΔƐΚΑΤΟΥ = year 12
Dating AD 127/8
Obverse inscription
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian (?), right
Reverse inscription L ΙΒ
Edition (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation of year 12
Reverse design cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 12 mm
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note A. Eidelstein, SM 249 (2013), p. 3, reads, probably correctly, as LIB: confirmation required. He goes on to argue implausibly that the portrait of Hadrian is wearing a kalathos (surely it is a die break?); he also reads IZ to the left of the obv. bust but that looks like die damage to us; and finally he suggests the I to the r. of the bust is a nilometer. For I, see introduction.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Eidelstein