RPC III, 6520

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6520
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Arabia (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 ΑΡΑΒΙΑ, L ΙΑ
Reverse design Isis(-Hathor)-Chensit, standing, facing, head right, wearing crown with two feathers and an uraeus, peplos knotted under breast, sceptre oukh (?) in left hand, right hand lowered
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 23 (7 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 4034 Égypte romaine, 1997, p. 75 no. 58
2 2     P: 4035
3 3     P: D. 1292
4 4     L BMC N2
5 5     B: 19740
6 6     Cop SNG 1082
7 7     NY: 1973.56.697
8 8     ✸ Brussels: II.51.784 L. Bricault, RBN 149, 2003, pl. III.2
9 9     Cologne: 3380
10 10     Milan SNG 1178
11 11     Turin Di San Quintino, Medaglie, 1833, p. 13; not illus.
12 12     A: 5031 Dem 3544
13 13     Alexandria
14 14     D6205 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 295
15 15     DS10870, pl. 295
16 16     MMAG FPL 183, Sept. 1958, lot 40 (not illus.)
17 17     Aiello = Mabbott 3702
18 18     de Geus 10, 16–17 Oct. 2000, lot 2344 = CNA XIII, 4 Dec. 1990, lot 234 = Harmer Rooke, 12 Dec. 1986, lot 1031
19 19     NFA, 18 Oct. 1990, lot 2544
20 20     CNA XXI, 26 June 1992, lot 544
21 21     Dürr, 16 Nov. 1998, lot 726.
22 22     Vat: 1893
23 23     Vat: 1894