RPC III, 729

 

Image of specimen #13

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 729
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Bizya
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Magistrate Quintus Tineius Rufus (presbeutes and antistrategos)
Dating AD 124/8 (?)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτο(κράτωρ) Τραϊανὸς Ἁδριανός Καῖσαρ Σεβ(αστὸς)
Translation Emperor Trajan Hadrian Caesar Augustus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right, with paludamentum
Reverse inscription ΕΠΕΙ ΤΕΙ ΡΟΥΦΟΥ ΠΡΕϹΒ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΙ ΤΟΥ ϹΕΒΑ ΒΙΖΥΗΝΩΝ
Edition ἐπεὶ Τει(νείου) Ῥούφου πρεσβ(ευτοῦ) καὶ ἀντι(στρατήγου) τοῦ Σεβα(στοῦ) Βιζυηνῶν
Translation under Tineius Rufus, envoy and deputy commander of the Augustus, of the Bizyans
Reverse design city gate, flanked by two towers, surmounted by a figure in quadriga, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 20.30 g
Axis 6
Reference Jurukova 4 corr., 7 corr.
Specimens 14 (1 in the core collections)
Note The coin illustrated by Jurukova on Taf. 1 is not the Paris coin. The reverse legend on the coin illustrated by Jurukova and the Paris coin clearly reads ΕΠΕΙ ΤΕΙ — and not ΕΠΙ ΤΙ —. Jurukova 7, though supposed to read another obv. legend than 4, is probably the same, as the coin of Sofia illustrated on Taf. 2 was struck from the same pair of dies as P 281
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 281
2 2 –5     see Jurukova 4
6 6 –7     see Jurukova 7
8 8     Yale: 2009.110.19
9 9     Lanz 86, 18 May 1998, lot 461
10 10     Florence
11 11     Savoca 106th Blue, 26 June 2021, lot 440 ex Gorny & Mosch Online 259, 20 Oct. 2018, lot 3434
12 12     R. Becker coll.
13 13     ✸ Naumann 98, 3 Jan. 2021, lot 487
14 14     R. Pudill coll. (ex Münzzentrum 98, 7 May 1999, lot 271)