RPC III, 6381

 

Image of specimen #12

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6381
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Aphroditopolite (nome of Upper Egypt)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΑΦΡΟΔΙ, L ΙΑ
Reverse design Hathor/Aphrodite standing, facing, head left, wearing feathers between two spurs, holding in right hand figure of Demeter veiled, standing, right, torch in right hand, and something circular in left hand, and in left hand, figure of Isis standing, facing, wearing
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 15 (4 in the core collections)
Die-links 5, 12: same pair of dies. 5, 12–13: same rev. die.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC N69
2 2     B: 19750
3 3     NY: 1944.100.58166
4 4     NY: 1974.26.3444
5 5     Cologne: 3379
6 6     Milan SNG 1177
7 7     Marseille: 528
8 8     A: 5019
9 9     D6198 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 296
10 10 –11     Aiello = DS10892, n.d., pl. 296
12 12     ✸ WB coll., Köln
13 13     Kovacs MBS XIII, 3 June 1998, lot 219 = Jacquier 26, Frühjahr 2001, lot 241
14 14     Blançon 31, 1999–2000, lot 1069 (not illus.).
15 15     ETB coll.