RPC III, 5901

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 5901
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue L IH = year 18
Dating AD 133/4
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΙΗ
Reverse design jugate draped busts of Sarapis, wearing kalathos and laurel wreath, and of Isis, crowned with taenia, disc and horns, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Specimens 8 (4 in the core collections)
Note DS7783 and CNG 91 (2012) lot 743 both have jugate busts of Sarapis and Isis, but Sarapis is radiate; the year is illegible, but the obv. Is the one used in years 17-20. For DS7783, see now RPC III, 6115.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: TOW.1274 BMC 746
2 2     L: 1888,0403.35 BMC 747
3 3     P: 1747
4 4     V: GR 24430
5 5     A: Dem 1400
6 6     A: 239/429
7 7     Giessener 108 (2001) lot 1555
8 8     Pudill coll., ex Gemini VI (2010), lot 617