RPC III, 6447

 

Image of specimen #13

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6447
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Menelaite (nome of Lower 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 ΜΕΝΕΛΑΙ, L ΙΑ
Edition Μενελαί(της) (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation Menelaite (nome), of year 11
Reverse design Opet standing, facing, head left, holding long reed in left hand, Harpocrates with lower body of a crocodile, left, in right hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 4.97 g
Axis 12
Specimens 13 (4 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 4054
2 2     L BMC N33
3 3     Cop SNG 1121
4 4     NY: 1973.56.712
5 5     Cologne de Geus 10, 16–17 Oct. 2000, lot 2388
6 6     A: 5095 Dem 3586
7 7     Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2965 = ETB coll. = D6313 (rev. illus. on pl. XXXV, but erroneously numbered 6314), DS pl. 305 = Naville 27, 27 Nov. 2016, lot 316
8 8 –9     DS n. d., 11034, pl. 305
10 10     WB coll., Köln (ex MünzZentrum Köln 70, 5–7 Dec. 1990, lot 830 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 157, 2006, fig. 5 p. 301: ‘jugendlicher Gaugott’)
11 11     MMAG FPL 263, Apr. 1966, lot 73 (not illus.)
12 12     CNA XIII, 4 Dec. 1990, lot 263
13 13     ✸ Naville 45, 9 Dec. 2018, lot 362, ex Dattari