RPC III, 6055

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 6055
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue L ƐΝΝƐΑΚ·Δ or L ΙΘ = year 19
Dating AD 134/5
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Ἁδριανὸς Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΕΝΝΕΑΚ·Δ
Edition (ἔτους) ἐννεακ(αι) δ(έκατος)
Translation of year nineteen
Reverse design Zeus reclining on eagle, left, holding patera and sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 25.39 g
Axis 12
Specimens 15 (9 in the core collections)
Note The very worn P FG 1691, which seems to have [L I]Θ, is probably a coin of Trajan. The design occurs for Trajan’s year 19 with L ΙΘ (e.g. D1082, with the bust seen from rear), and on the Trajanic coins Zeus holds a thunderbolt rather than a patera, as on the coins of Hadrian: on P FG 1691 it looks more like a thunderbolt than a patera.
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