RPC III, 6421

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6421
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Phthemphuti (nome of Lower Egypt)
Obverse inscription
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΦΘΕΜΦ, L ΙΑ
Edition Φθεμφ(ουθίτης) (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation Phthemphuti (nome), of year 11
Reverse design young Harpocrates/Heracles nude, sitting on a lotus flower, left, right hand to the mouth, club on left shoulder
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 14 mm
Average weight 1.87 g
Axis 12
Specimens 14 (5 in the core collections)
Note The reverse inscription of coins 4, 5, and 8-10 was originally the five letters ΦΘΕΝΕ. This legend was probably used erroneously with the type of Harpocrates on the lotus, which determined coins of the nome Phthemphuti. The engraver recut two letters
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC N48
2 2     O: HCR34340 M 1242
3 3     B: 8422
4 4     Cop SNG 1139 = J. Sheridan, ANSMN 33, 1988, pl. 20.3
5 5     NY: 1944.100.58212 J. Sheridan, ANSMN 33, 1988, pl. 20.4
6 6     Cologne Jacquier 20, Herbst 1997, lot 459 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 155, 2006, fig. 20 p. 297
7 7     A: 5060 Dem 3565
8 8     A: 5078 Dem 3575 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 155, 2006, fig. 45 p. 300
9 9     Alexandria
10 10     D6353 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 313
11 11     Kovacs MBS XI, 19 June 1993, lot 212
12 12     Naumann 78, 2 June 2019, lot 686
13 13     ✸ Roma Numismatics EA 97, 26 May 2022, lot 719
14 14     R. Pudill coll. (ex Naumann 112, 2 Jan. 2022, lot 1471)