RPC III, 3260

 

Image of specimen #17

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3260
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Tarsus
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue First group
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΘΕ ΤΡΑ ΠΑΡ ΥΙ ΘΕ ΝΕΡ ΥΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕ
Nominative Imperator Caesar divi Traiani Parthicus filius divi Nervae nepos Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, with drapery on left shoulder; fillet border
Reverse inscription ΤΑΡϹΕΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ
Reverse design Tyche of the City, turreted and veiled, seated, left, on diphros, holding palm and cornucopia; at her feet, river god Kydnos, crowned with sedge swimming, right
Metal silver
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 12
Reference SNG France 1404; Prieur 763
Specimens 17 (5 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 6–11, 14–15, 17: same obv. die. 12–13, 16: same obv. die.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     O
2 2     G SNG 2311 = Hunter II, 550/27 and pl. LX, 13: rev.
3 3     P: 1966/30 SNG 1404
4 4     Cop SNG 356
5 5     A: BG NP 3140
6 6     NY: 1977.158.835
7 7     Hirsch XIII, Rhousopoulos coll., 15 May 1905, lot 4377
8 8     Spink NumCirc LXXXVII, 5, May 1979, lot 5060 (ex Santamaria, Magnaguti III, 26 June 1950, lot 777)
9 9     Coin Galleries 9 Apr. 1986, lot 44
10 10     CNG MBS 64, 24 Sept. 2003, lot 691 (ex Berk BBS 116, 17 Oct. 2000, lot 728; Berk BBS 119, 15 Mar. 2001, lot 592) = CNG EA 441, 3 Apr. 2019, lot 346 (ex Prieur coll.)
11 11     CNG MBS 67, 22 Sept. 2004, lot 1119 (ex Gorny & Mosch 129, 8 Mar. 2004, lot 243)
12 12     Gorny & Mosch 160, 9 Oct. 2007, lot 2009 = CNG EA 441, 3 Apr. 2019, lot 344 (ex Prieur coll.)
13 13     Helios 3, 29 Apr. 2009, lot 670
14 14     Leu EA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2655 = ETB coll., ex CNG 88, 14 Sept. 2011, lot 1004
15 15     CGT coll. (ex Auctiones 54, 18 Dec. 2016, lot 148)
16 16     CGT coll. (exRoma Numismatics 5, 21 May 2013, lot 774)
17 17     ✸ VAuctions Pars Coins Sale 12, 1 Feb. 2021, lot 151