Bronze Coin (Mint: Alexandria)
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- Title:
- Bronze Coin (Mint: Alexandria)
- Collection:
- Cornell Coin Collection
- Date:
- 117-138 CE
- Country:
- Egypt
- ID Number:
- RMM08464_00866
- Negative Number:
- 866
- Archival Collection Number:
- 8464
- File Name:
- RMM08464_00866.jpg
- Mint:
- Alexandria
- Obverse:
- Bust of Hadrian R, draped and cuirassed
AVKAICTPAIAN ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CEB - Reverse:
- sphinx, l., wearing modius, further fore-paw on wheel, wings curled, uraeus on head
in field l., L
years of reign obscured in field R - Style/Period:
- Imperial (Roman)
- Work Type:
- coins (money)
money - Materials/Techniques:
- bronze (metal)
- Subject:
- Coins, Ancient
- Measurement:
- 32 mm (millimeters, diameter)
- Notes:
- there are three cards for this one
Items in the Cornell Coins Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes
metadata may not be complete in all cases. - Bibliography:
- BMC, vol. 16 p. 19 # 846 Pl. XXVI
Sear GREEK IMPERIAL COINS AND THEIR VALUES, p. 116-117 - Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Archival Collection:
- Cornell coin collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Coins Collection (in part Greek and Roman Coin Collection, #8464, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying coins, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2011 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.