RPC III, 5912

 

Image of specimen #14

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 5912
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 Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τραϊανὸς Ἁδριανὸς Σεβαστός 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 (ἔτους) ιηʹ
Translation of year 18
Reverse design sphinx with crown of disc, horns and feathers, with crocodile emerging from chest, walking, left, on serpent; above, griffin
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.68 g
Axis 12
Specimens 18 (9 in the core collections)
Note The sphinx is sometimes without a beard (as on /17). F. Vink points out that such beardless sphinxes are documented in antiquity: see O.E. Kaper, The Egyptian god Tutu: A Study of the Sphinx-god andMaster of Demons with a Corpus of Monuments (Leuven, 2003), pp. 219-20.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1864,1118.399 BMC 853
2 2     B: 96/1892
3 3     G: 362
4 4     NY
5 5     NY
6 6     NY
7 7     NY
8 8     O: HCR33196 M 1425
9 9     V: GR 24446
10 10     A: Dem 1423
11 11     Cologne Geissen 1132
12 12     Aiello
13 13     Curtis
14 14     ✸ D2004 = Staffieri = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 79 = Kolner Munzkabinett 67, 1997, lot 556 (Figari - Mosconi 389)
15 15     Dresden
16 16     Yale: 2001.87.3941
17 17     F. Vink coll.
18 18     Freiburg: 12866