RPC III, 3805

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3805
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Laodicea ad Mare
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Year 170
Dating AD 122/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right, with gorgoneion
Reverse inscription ΙΟΥΛΙΕωΝ ΤωΝ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕωΝ, ΟΡ
Reverse design turreted and draped bust of Tyche, right
Metal silver
Average diameter 26 mm
Axis 12
Reference Prieur 1109; Adra 1562–5
Specimens 7 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3, 5–7: same obv. die. 4: same obv. die as 3806/1, 6, 8–9, 3807/2–3, 5–8.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 54
2 2     ✸ P: 1157
3 3     Bern: Righetti 3827
4 4     NY: 1967.152.568
5 5     Prieur coll. (ex Hirsch 169, 20 Feb. 1991, lot 875) = CNG Triton XXII, 8 Jan. 2019, lot 653
6 6     Leu EA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2740 = ETB coll. (ex Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio, The Robert O. Ebert coll., NY, 11 jan. 2013, lot 5142 = CNG Triton XXII, 8 Jan. 2019, lot 652 = MM FPL 279, August 1967, lot 40 = NAC 1, 1989, lot 862)
7 7     Künker 288, 13 Mar. 2017, lot 563