RPC III, 6493

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6493
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Sethroite (nome of Lower Egypt)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ϹΕΘΡω, L ΙΑ
Reverse design hieracocephalic Horus of Mesen, standing, left, wearing pschent and military dress, holding spear surmounted by hawk, left, in right hand, left hand lifting chlamys
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 8 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC N62
2 2     NY: 1973.56.720
3 3     Marseille: 501 ex de Geus 10, 16–17 Oct. 2000, lot 2415 = van der Dussen 24, 2 June 1995, lot 3849 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 158, 2006, fig. 36 p. 300
4 4     A: 5037
5 5     Alexandria
6 6     ✸ D6389, DS pl. 312 = Naville Numismatics 55, 9 Feb. 2020, lot 385
7 7     Aiello
8 8     Vat: 1940