All Hadrian provincials coins

Must be a "Brown Bear", first time I have seen a bear on any coin minted before 1200AD!

 

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@Okidoki -- here's one I haven't posted before. Not sure how I missed showing it off because I've had it more than a year. I'm trying to collect coins which as a group show the stages of syncretism of this god: from the invented Serapis to Serapis Pantheos. Here he is with horns of Ammon.


EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian
year 8, CE 123/4
billion tetradrachm, 23 mm, 13.2 gm
Obv: ...TPAI AΔ... ; laureate bust right, slight drapery; crescent before
Rev: draped bust of Serapis-Ammon right; L-H across fields
Ref: Emmett 895.8, R5; Köln 858; Dattari (Savio) 1481; K&G 32.258

 

@TIF, very very nice they are rare and not always recognized as Ammon.

here is mine

 

Great coins Tif & Eric.

I just won a Hadrian Tet last night cheaply. Nothing rare though.

 

Grrrrrroooowwwwl ...

Oh well, I'll wait for my turn to snag one of those babies ...



=> congrats TIF ... that's a great wolf coin!!

 

Welcome back from summer vacation, SteveO!

I agree, the animal looks like a friendly dog rather than a ferocious bear.

 

yes I agree with TIF we missed you.

 

I'll add mine to the thread, from Cappadocia

 

Hadrian Denarius 134-38 AD Roma and Hadrian standing vis-à-vis here a scepter eastern mint

Reference.
cf. RIC 225; (Spear usually) New RIC 140

Obv. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P
Head of Hadrian, bare, right

Rev.ADVENTVS AVG
Roma, helmeted, in military dress, standing right, holding scepter(Roma has spear) in left hand and clasping hands with Hadrian on right, who stands left, togate, facing her

2.96 gr
17 mm
6h

 

Arabia, Decapolis. Petra. Hadrian Æ 16 Laurel-wreath
Reference.
RPC 3, 4103; Spijkerman 12; BMC 10

Issue Petra metropolis

Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙС ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙ СƐΒ
Laureate head of Hadrian, right

Rev. ΠƐΤΡΑ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙС
In three lines within a laurel-wreath

3.38 gr
16 mm

 

Sweet additions, my friend

 

Great additions, Eric, I like both.

 

Curtis Clay thinks it not eastern but i am convinced it is,

 

Great additions @Okidoki

 

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian Drachm 132-33 AD Dioscuri standing facing
Reference.
Emmett 950.17; RPC 3, 5831; Dattari 1683; Oxf. 1363

Issue L IZ = year 17

Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙС ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС СƐΒ
Laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, r., seen from rear

Rev. L ΙΖ
Dioscuri (clothed) standing facing above stars, each holding sceptre and parazonium.

25.09 gr
33 mm
h

Note.
Ex Cahn auction 1936 and Frank Sternberg (Zürich). Basel 6 lot 502
Collection Dr. A. Voirol.

 

That is a very attractive coin!! And with such a cool reverse!! Congrats OKI!!

 

Thx mikey.
Can you imagine olympic game 1936?

 

Nice addition, Eric.

Mind as well throw this in here.


Hardrian (117-138 A.D.)
Billon Tetradrachm
O: AYT KAIC TPAIANOC A∆PIANOC CEB, laureate head right, drapery on left shoulder, star in front.
R: LB, Dikaiosyne standing left, scales in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, L - B (year 2) flanking across field. 117 - 118 A.D.
Alexandria
13.72g
23mm
Milne 872 Emmett 833

 

Well, I can imagine and I'm sure most of us recall reference to it and Jesse owens. I don't think that was a very happy time for Adolf LOL

 

Another amazing new Hadrian, Oki ... congrats, coin-bro