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!
Æ32 - Hadrian L ΙΗ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
|---|---|
| Year | 133-134 |
| 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#5914 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A walking sphinx facing right occupies the central field, wearing a composite Egyptian crown consisting of a solar disc, cow horns, and double feathers atop its head, signifying a syncretic Graeco-Egyptian religious identity. A crocodile, emblematic of the Nile and of Egypt itself, is depicted emerging from the chest of the sphinx, an iconographically distinctive and rare type. The sphinx treads upon a serpent coiled beneath its forepaws. Above the sphinx, a small figure of Athena advances to the right, brandishing a spear in her right hand and holding a wreath in her left, rendered in a miniature but detailed style characteristic of Alexandrian civic bronzes. The regnal date legend appears in the right field. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | L ΙΗ (Translation: of year 18) |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |