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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3261447, member: 103829&quot;]<b>Egypt, Nome Arsinoites, Hadrian, Milne 1229 </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]858039[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Hadrian, AD 117-138</p><p>AE - Obol, 4.52g, 19.19mm, o°</p><p>126/127 (year 11)</p><p>obv. AVT KAI - TRAI ADRIANOC</p><p>Bust, slightly draped on far shoulder, laureate, r.</p><p>rev. ARCI - LIA (year 11)</p><p>Head of pharao Amenemhet III r., wearing nemes head-cloth and Uraeus</p><p>ref. Milne 1229; Dattari 6210; Emmett 1221; Geissen 3381/3382; BMC 72/73; SNG Copenhagen 1083/1084</p><p>rare, good F</p><p><br /></p><p>The nome coins have been struck in Alexandria for the other districts of Egypt. They are considered as rare. Often they show local deities.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Arsinoites nome corresponds to the oasis Fayum called crocodile district too. Amenemhet III, a pharao from the 12th dynasty, has cultivated and drained that oasis. A local cult for this pharao was wide spread in Fayum.</p><p><br /></p><p>The nemes head-cloth is known from the famous bust of Tutenkhamun too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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