RPC III, 6377

 

Image of specimen #21

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6377
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Heracleopolite (nome of Upper Egypt)
Obverse inscription
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΗΡΑ, L ΙΑ
Edition Ἡρακ(λεοπολίτης) (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation Heracleopolite (nome), of year 11
Reverse design griffin sitting, right, left paw on wheel
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 13 mm
Average weight 1.75 g
Axis 12
Specimens 21 (4 in the core collections)
Note D6261 (rev. ‘ΗΡΑ clava verticale capovolta’) is misread; the coin is a hemiobol from the Prosopite nome.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 3963
2 2     L BMC N80
3 3     O: HCR34330 M 1252e
4 4     B: 1908/577
5 5     Brussels: II.51.803 L. Bricault, RBN 149, 2003, pl. III.21
6 6     Cologne: 3398
7 7     Marseille: 493 ex de Geus 10, 16–17 Oct. 2000, lot 2369
8 8     A: 5009 Dem 3531
9 9     Alexandria
10 10     Alexandria
11 11     Jerusalem IM 4901
12 12     D6260 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 300
13 13     DS10957, pl. 300
14 14     Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung 23, 7–9 Dec. 1982, lot 129 = MM Deutschland 12, 11 Apr. 2003, lot 341
15 15     CNA XIII, 4 Dec. 1990, lot 250
16 16     Jacquier 20, Herbst 1997, lot 454
17 17     Kölner Münzkabinett 67, 12–13 Nov. 1997, lot 576
18 18     Dürr, 16 Nov. 1998, lot 752 = Elsen 72, 14 Dec. 2002, lot 731 = Schenk 85, 8 Apr. 2003, lot 186 = Schenk 86, 26 Sept. 2003, lot 259 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 151, 2005, pl. IV.35
19 19     Elsen 64, 2 Dec. 2000, lot 988, 2.33.
20 20     Staffieri = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 60
21 21     ✸ Pudill coll., ex Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 114