RPC III, 6376

 

Image of specimen #20

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6376
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Heracleopolite (nome of Upper Egypt)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Τραϊ(ανὸς) Ἁδρια(νὸς) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΗΡΑΚ, L ΙΑ
Edition Ἡρακ(λεοπολίτης) (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation Heracleopolite (nome), of year 11
Reverse design bearded head of Herishef/Heracles, wearing taenia, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 5.05 g
Axis 12
Specimens 29 (9 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 3959
2 2     P: 3960
3 3     L BMC N79
4 4     L BMC Suppl. N145
5 5     G SNG 4969
6 6     B: 28798
7 7     B: Fox
8 8     B: Löbb.
9 9     V: GR 26163
10 10     Cologne: 3396
11 11     Turin Di San Quintino, Medaglie, 1833, p. 11; not illus.
12 12     Bologna 15442
13 13     Marseille: 531
14 14     A: 7129
15 15     Alexandria
16 16     D6258 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 300
17 17     MünzZentrum 52, 12 Nov. 1984, lot 1351
18 18     NFA & Bank Leu, 29 Mar. 1985, 484i = CNA XIII, 4 Dec. 1990, lot 247 = Jacquier 26, Frühjahr 2001, lot 245
19 19     Pudill coll.
20 20     ✸ Dürr, 16 Nov. 1998, lot 750
21 21     de Geus 10, 16–17 Oct. 2000, lot 2368
22 22     Elsen 61, 18–19 Mar. 2000, lot 994; perhaps identical to Elsen 64, 2 Dec. 2000, lot 987
23 23     New York Sale XI, 11 Jan. 2006, lot 218
24 24     CNG 61, 25 Sept. 2002, lot 1081
25 25     Jacquier 38, 13 Sept. 2013, lot 274
26 26     Aiello
27 27     Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2959 = ETB coll., ex Artemide 40E, 2017, lot 313
28 28     CGT coll. = Auctiones 26, 18 May 2014, lot 36
29 29     Kölner Münzkabinett 122, 4 Oct. 2024, lot 1005 = Wishnevsky Coll. = Kölner Münzkabinett 67, 12–13 Nov. 1997, lot 573