RPC III, 179

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 179
Province Achaea
Region Corinthia
City Corinth
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Issue Asses
Dating AD 117/28
Obverse inscription IMP CAESAR TRA - HADRIANVS
Edition Imp(erator) Caesar Tra(ianus) Hadrianus
Translation Emperor Caesar Trajanus Hadrian
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription COL L IVL COR
Edition col(onia) L(aus) Iul(ia) Cor(inthiensium)
Translation Colony of Laus Iulia of the Corinthians
Reverse design conical structure (stone baetyl of Apollo?) with a finial set on a high, round base on a shallow step
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 7.41 g
Axis 6
Reference J. Sabatier, RBN IV (1860), p. 9 and pl. II, 7, NCP 15/8 and pl. C, XLVII
Specimens 8 (5 in the core collections)
Note The identification of this structure with the baetyl of Apollo Agyieus is due to M. Walbank, ‘Image and Cult: the Coinage of Roman Corinth’, in S. J. Friesen, D. N. Schowalter and J. C. Walters (eds.), Corinth in Context (Leiden-Boston, 2010), pp. 163-70
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1920,0805.966
2 2     P: 1968/176
3 3     P: 1968/177
4 4     B: I-B NCP, pl. C, XLVII: rev.
5 5     B: Fox
6 6     Santamaria, Magnaguti III, 20 June 1950, lot 688
7 7     Lanz Münzen von Korinth Sammlung BCD, 26 Nov. 2001, lot 632 (ex CNG XXXII, 7 Dec. 1994, lot 474)
8 8     ✸ Lanz 109, 27 May 2002, lot 441 = CNG EA 531, 25 Jan. 2023, lot 535