RPC III, 676

 

Image of specimen #24

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 676
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Abdera
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Trajan (Divus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ (ΚΑΙϹΑΡ)
Nominative Imperator Traianus Hadrianus Caesar
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΘΕω ΔΙ ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΗ
Nominative Imperator Divus (?)
Reverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed male bust, right, seen from front or rear
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 17 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference Chryssanthaki 917–30
Specimens 28 (6 in the core collections)
Note The beginning of the obv. legend was read as ΑΥΤΟKΡΑ by Chryssanthaki. For the reading of the reverse, see introduction.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1909,0502.2
2 2     O Santamaria, Magnaguti III, 26 June 1950, lot 703 = NC 1953, 21/3 and pl. I, 2
3 3     P: 106
4 4     Milan: Brera 2888 SNG 343
5 5     V: GR 27335 (T 302)
6 6     Mu
7 7     B: 18246118, 67/1928
8 8     Abdera excavations
9 9     Abdera excavations
10 10     Abdera excavations
11 11     Abdera excavations
12 12     Abdera excavations
13 13     Abdera excavations
14 14     Abdera excavations
15 15     Abdera excavations
16 16     Abdera excavations
17 17     Abdera excavations
18 18     Thasos excavations
19 19     Thasos excavations
20 20     Münzen Auktion Essen 79, 17 Mar. 2000, lot 136
21 21     Rauch Sommerauktion 2009 Katalog I-Antike, 17 Sept. 2009, lot 790
22 22     Rauch Sommerauktion 2009 Katalog I-Antike, 17 Sept. 2009, lot 791
23 23     SHH 3675
24 24     ✸ Rauch 85, 26 Nov. 2009, lot 527
25 25     CGT coll. = Savoca 29 Blue, 222 Feb. 2020, lot 690
26 26     CGT coll. = Savoca 13 Blue, 1 Dec. 2018, lot 768
27 27     CGT coll.
28 28     Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2497 = ETB coll. = Naumann EA 41, 6 Mar. 2016, lot 398