Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ17 - Hadrian L ΔΕ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
|---|---|
| Year | 125-126 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | RPC III#5615 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹΕΒ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus) |
| Reverse description | Euthenia, the personification of abundance and prosperity in Alexandrian iconography, reclines to the left atop a sphinx. She is depicted holding ears of corn in her extended hand, referencing the agricultural fertility of Egypt. The composition is characteristic of Alexandrian civic coinage under Hadrian, with the date regnal formula appearing prominently in the field. The sphinx beneath the figure serves as a distinctly Egyptian symbolic element, underlining the Greco-Egyptian artistic synthesis of the mint. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Year 10 of Hadrian's reign — rendered in Egyptian regnal dating as L ΔΕ — falls squarely within his extended tour of the eastern provinces, during which he visited Alexandria in 130 AD. The Alexandrian mint maintained its own dating system and a distinct civic identity long after Egypt became a Roman province, issuing bronze for purely local circulation that never left the Nile valley by official design.