RPC III, 6516

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6516
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Pharbaithite (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 ΦΑΡΒΑΙ, L ΙΑ
Edition Φαρβαι(θίτης) (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation Pharbaithite (nome), of year 11
Reverse design Harmerti, standing, facing, head left, wearing pschent, cuirassed, holding spear in right hand, Kem-wer bull, right, in left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 5.04 g
Axis 12
Specimens 11 (3 in the core collections)
Note /7 = moved to 6349/34

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 4037 Égypte romaine, 1997, p. 93 no. 92
2 2     Cop SNG 1137
3 3     NY: 1944.100.58208
4 4     Cologne de Geus 10, 16–17 Oct. 2000, lot 2407 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 160, 2007, fig. 29 p. 300
5 5     A: 5029 Dem 3542
6 6     Toronto 910.160.681 (1)
8 8     DS11166, pl. 313 = Naville Numismatics 54, 15 Dec. 2019, lot 362
9 9     DS11167, pl. 313
10 10     Mabbott 3773 (not illus.)
11 11     NFA, 18 Oct. 1990, lot 2564
12 12     Dürr, 16 Nov. 1998, lot 783