RPC III, 5723

 

Image of specimen #2

 

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 Ι
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian (?), right
Reverse inscription L ΙΒ
Edition ἔτους ιβʹ (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation of year 12
Reverse design cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 12 mm
Average weight 1.50 g
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note A. Eidelstein, SM 249 (2013), p. 3, read, probably correctly, as LIB: confirmation now received. He went on to argue implausibly that the portrait of Hadrian is wearing a kalathos (surely it is a die break?); he also read 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 = 10, see introduction.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Eidelstein
2 2     ✸ Nummitra 105, 28 Dec. 2025, lot 1287