RPC III, 6399

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6399
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Prosopite (nome of Lower Egypt)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription ΠΡΟϹω, L ΙΑ
Reverse design young Harsomtous/Heracles standing, facing, head left, wearing nemes and hem-hem crown, raising right hand to mouth, holding club (sometimes with a hawk at the top) in left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 44 (14 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 4007 J. Schwartz, BSFE 15, Feb. 1954, p. 25 fig. 6
2 2     P: D.1290
3 3     L BMC N51
4 4     L BMC Suppl. N128
5 5     L BMC Suppl. N129
6 6     B: 28730
7 7     B: Cassel 1925
8 8     Cop SNG 1142
9 9     V: GR 26123
10 10     NY: 1944.100.58213
11 11     NY: 1973.56.716
12 12     NY: 1973.56.717
13 13     NY: 1974.26.3462
14 14     NY: 1974.26.3463
15 15     Cologne: 3423
16 16     Cologne: 3424
17 17     Cologne: 3425
18 18     Gotha 1.3.361
19 19     Milan SNG 1201
20 20     Turin Di San Quintino, Medaglie, 1833, no. 1 p. 16–17; not illus
21 21     Bologna 15444
22 22     A: 5055
23 23     Alexandria
24 24     Alexandria
25 25     Alexandria
26 26     Alexandria
27 27     Alexandria
28 28     Dem 3561
29 29     Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2961 = ETB coll., ex D6356 (rev. illus.), DS pl. 309 = Naville 27, 27 Nov. 2016, lot 317
30 30     DS 6357, DS pl. 309
31 31     DS11103, pl. 309 = Naville 38, 11 Mar. 2018, lot 446
32 32     DS11104 = Naville 41, 24 June 2018, lot 386
33 33     DS11105
34 34     DS11106 = Naville Numismatics 37, 28 Jan. 2018, lot 426
35 35 –36     DS11107–8, pl. 309
37 37     Gemini LLC VI, 10 Jan. 2010, lot 871 = MMAG FPL 183, Sept. 1958, lot 52 (not illus.)
38 38     Mabbott 3774 (‘Isis’; not illus.)
39 39     CNA XXI, 26 June 1992, lot 554
40 40     Dürr, 16 Nov. 1998, lot 785 = Geissen & Weber, ZPE 153, 2005, fig. 17 p. 316
41 41     Dürr, 16 Nov. 1998, lot 786
42 42     CNG online, 724032
43 43     Aiello
44 44     Aiello