bpv_233848 - HADRIAN Drachme
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Type : Drachme
Date: an 19
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait, mais légende pratiquement illisible. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine vert clair et rouge
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Hadrien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : [AUT KAIS TRAIAN - ADRIANOS SEB] (Autokrator Kaisar Traianos Adrianos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L.
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailles déployées, la tête tournée à gauche.
Reverse legend : EN[NEA]KD
Commentary
Poids léger. Hadrien a visité l’Égypte au cours de ses voyages. C’est sur le Nil qu’Antinous, son compagnon, se noya à l'emplacement de la cité que devait fonder l'empereur à sa mémoire (Antinoupolis). Nous avons 22 années égyptiennes pour el règne d’Hadrien.
Lightweight. Hadrian visited Egypt during his travels. It was on the Nile that Antinous, his companion, drowned on the site of the city that the emperor was to found in his memory (Antinoupolis). We have 22 Egyptian years for Hadrian's reign.
Lightweight. Hadrian visited Egypt during his travels. It was on the Nile that Antinous, his companion, drowned on the site of the city that the emperor was to found in his memory (Antinoupolis). We have 22 Egyptian years for Hadrian's reign.







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