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
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Ἁδριανὸς Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΙΗ
Edition (ἔτους) ιηʹ
Translation of year 18
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
Average weight 25.73 g
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