RPC III, 6448

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6448
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Menelaite (nome of Lower Egypt)
Obverse inscription
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΜΕΝΕΛΑΙ, L ΙΑ
Reverse design Harpocrates with lower body of a crocodile, standing, left, wearing pschent, right hand to mouth, left arm holding cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 15 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 16 (7 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 4055
2 2     ✸ L BMC N34
3 3     B: Löbb.
4 4     B: 8143
5 5     Cop SNG 1122
6 6     V: GR 26139
7 7     NY: 1988.59.2 Empire Coins 8, 7 Dec. 1987, lot 842
8 8     Cologne Jacquier 20, Herbst 1997, lot 457
9 9     Turin Di San Quintino, Medaglie, 1833, p. 21; not illus.
10 10     A: 5096 Dem 3587
11 11     Alexandria
12 12     D6314, DS pl. 305
13 13     DS n. d., pl. 305
14 14     WB coll., Köln (ex CNA XIII, 4 Dec. 1990, lot 264 = de Geus 10, 16–17 Oct. 2000, lot 2389 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 157, 2006, fig. 6 p. 301)
15 15     MMAG FPL 183, Sept. 1958, lot 49 (rev. illus.)
16 16     Vat: 1926