RPC III, 6260


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Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	6260
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Hadrian
Person (obv.)	Aelius (Caesar)
Issue	L KB = year 22
Dating	AD 137/8
Obverse inscription	Λ ΑΙΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition	Λ(ούκιος) Αἴλιος Καῖσαρ
Translation	Lucius Aelius Caesar
Obverse design	bare-headed and draped bust of Aelius, right (seen from front)
Reverse inscription	L ΚΒ
Edition	(ἔτους) κβʹ
Translation	of year 22
Reverse design	bust of Harpocrates wearing hem-hem crown, right; to right, pomegranate
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	17 mm
Average weight	6.70 g
Axis	12
Specimens	3 (1 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸	P: 2498		17				Show
2	2		DS8002	17			the obverse reads [ ]KAICAP and the portrait looks like Aelius. It may be the same obv. die as the Staffieri specimen	Show
3	3		Staffieri = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 105	17	6.70	12	ex CNG 39 (1996) lot 1054: according to this sale catalogue, the obverse seems to read ΑΛΙΛΙΟϹ (sic) ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, but examination of the coin indicates that it has the normal inscription	Show