RPC III, 732

 

Image of specimen #12

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 732
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Bizya
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Hadrian (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ(Ο) ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Hadrianus Caesar Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, with drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΒΙΖΥΗΝΩΝ
Reverse design banquet scene: symposiast reclining left on klinè; woman seated at his feet; on right, forepart of horse, left, right foreleg raised; on left, a boy
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 6
Reference Jurukova 8
Specimens 14 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 4, 6, 13: same obv. die. 7, 11: same obv. die. 9, 12: same obv. die.
Note See now M. Amandry, 'Térée et Procné représentés sur le monnayage de Bizye?', in D. Boteva (ed.), Ex nummis lux. Studies in ancient coinage in honour of Dimitar Draganov (Sofia, 2017), pp.291-8

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     St Petersburg: 4702
2 2     O: Uncertain
3 3     Evelpidis SNG 907
4 4     Trade 2006 (Aiello)
5 5     CNG MBS 37, 20 Mar. 1996, lot 1025
6 6     CNG EA 227, 10 Feb. 2010, lot 263
7 7     Helios 5, 25 June 2010, lot 567 (ex MM Numismatics Ltd I, 7 Dec. 1997, lot 160)
8 8     CNG EA 271, 11 Jan. 2012, lot 324
9 9     Lanz 161, 7 Dec. 2015, lot 311
10 10     Leu EA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2500 = ETB coll., ex Naumann 45, 3 July 2016, lot 370
11 11     CNG Triton XX, 10 Jan. 2017, lot 443
12 12     ✸ Savoca Silver 39, 22 Dec. 2019, lot 143 (ex CNG 112, 11 Sept. 2019, lot 419)
13 13     Formerly Lischine coll. 229
14 14     Kinney Coll. = Concordia Numismatic 4, 12–13 May 2023, lot 1225