RPC III, 3968

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3968
Province Judaea
Region Judaea
City Aelia Capitolina
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Sabina (Augusta)
Obverse inscription IMP CAE TR HAD AVG
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Hadrian, right (seen from rear)
Reverse inscription SABIN AVGVS
Nominative Sabina Augusta
Reverse design draped bust of Sabina, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 6
Reference Meshorer 7, Kadman 7
Specimens 24 (5 in the core collections)
Note The coins have no indication of mint, but find spots support the attribution according to Meshorer, p. 24 (though some scepticism was expressed by Stein, op. cit. p. 213). See Zlotnik, op. cit., p. 142, note 10, for a specimen from Tsuba near Jerusalem; and INJ 14 (2000-2002), p. 172, no. 12, for one from the finds from the Al Jai cave, near Jerusalem.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 4
2 2     L BMC 5
3 3     B: Löbb.
4 4     O
5 5     Meshorer 7
6 6     Sofaer 7
7 7     Pudill coll.
8 8     Pudill coll.
9 9     AUB 4
10 10     AUB 5
11 11     ✸ Gemini 1 (2005) lot 361
12 12     CNG MBS 63 (2003) lot 859
13 13     Forum 25641
14 14     CNG 732495
15 15     CNG EA 80 (2004) lot 65
16 16     CNG EA 117 (2005) lot 178
17 17     CNG EA 208 (2009) lot 265
18 18     J. Samel coll. = Das Heilige Land Antike Münzen und Siegel aus einem Jahrtausend jüdischer Geschichte (Staatliche Münzsammlung München, Katalog der Sonderausstellung 1993/94), No. 486 = Künker eLive 65, 23 Feb. 2021, lot 7172 = Künker 334, Oct. 2020, lot 2520
19 19     IMJ: 90.002.13268
20 20     IMJ: 78.01563
21 21     IMJ: 2008.037/383
22 22     IMJ: 2008.037/394
23 23     G: 3582
24 24     Brisbane: 2024