RPC III, 6115


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	6115
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Hadrian
Person (obv.)	Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue	L K = year 20
Dating	AD 135/6
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 Κ
Edition	ἔτους κʹ (ἔτους) κʹ
Translation	of year 20
Reverse design	jugate busts of radiate Sarapis, wearing kalathos and laurel wreath, and Isis, crowned with taenia, disc and horns, right
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Average weight	23.75 g
Axis	12
Specimens	2 (1 in the core collections)
Note	Same type as 5397 and 5516.

#	Specimen	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			V: GR 24480		33			ex Tiepolo 3002 (20.24g; 12h). Date not certain, but plausible. A. Barb, review of Vogt, NZ 17 (1924), pp. 109-14, at p. 111, no. 36. The design is cited also by Emmett 1038 (jugate busts of Sarapis and Isis) from Mi 6.1274	Show
2	2				Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2939 = ETB coll., ex Naville 54, 15 Dec. 2019, lot 293 = DS 7793	34.4	23.75	12	probably same rev. die as /1	Show