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III, 604
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/604
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Volume
III
Number
604
Province
Macedonia
Region
Macedonia
City
Edessa
Reign
Hadrian
Person (obv.)
Hadrian (Augustus)
Dating
AD 131/2?
Obverse inscription
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Nominative
Imperator Hadrianus Caesar
Obverse design
laureate head of Hadrian, r.
Reverse inscription
ƐΔƐϹϹΑΙΩΝ
Reverse design
turreted (helmeted?) figure of the city of Edessa standing l. holding female figure (Nike?) on extended r. hand and spear; at l., goat
Metal
Æ
Average diameter
21 mm
Reference
Papaefthymiou, p. 50, no. 3
Specimens
5 (1 in the core collections)
Specimens of this coin type
Number
Number
Obverse
Reverse
Museum
Bibliography
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Note
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1
1
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B: I-B
21.4
6.30
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2
2
BCD
5.28
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3
3
BCD
6.97
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4
4 –5
'Dion 1999’ hoard (see S. Kremydi-Sicilianou,
Multiple Concealments from the Sanctuary of Zeus Olympios at Dion. Three Roman Provincial Coin Hoards
(Meletèmata 35, Athens, 2004), p. 113, nos 1454–1455 and fig. 85, pl. 7)
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