Dardanos, Hadrian, bronze (CN type 3997)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
117-138 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
TroasCoin type in bronze struck at Dardanos in Troas under Hadrian dated 117-138 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3997. Obverse: Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Zeus in the form of an eagle left, abducting Ganymede with Phrygian cap, chlamys and holding pedum in right hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 21.8 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 5.29 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Dardanos
- Region
- Troas
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Hadrian
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Zeus in the form of an eagle left, abducting Ganymede with Phrygian cap, chlamys and holding pedum in right hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ ϹЄΒΑ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΔΑΡΔΑΝЄWΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3997
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3997
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 188, nr. 1564, pl. 67, pic. 1564
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 44, nr. 2733, pl. 122, pic. 2733
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 53, nr. 1, pl. 4, pic. 10
- external concordanceRPC III, 1564
Research required
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