CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

Emperor:

Hadrian

Denomination:

AE27

Composition:

Leaded Bronze

Date:

117-138 AD

Obverse:

ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙC Θ ΤΡ Π ΥΙ Θ ΝΕΡ ΥΙω ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CEBAC, Laurate bust of Hadrian right, draped and cuirassed, seen from front

Reverse:

S·C, Numeral letter AB below, within laurel wreath of eight bunches of leaves, terminating in a circle

Reference:

McAlee 536a = RPC III 3692/8 (this coin); Butcher 230; Hunter 3, 190; Waage 432; BMC Galatia -; for type, cf. SGICV 1238

Size:

27.18mm, 14.4g, 1h

Province:

Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antiochia ad Orontem

Grade:

VF, dark green patina

Pedigreed:

Provenance:

Pedigreed: McAlee Plate Coin; published in RPC; ex Richard McAlee Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 246 (15 December 2010), Lot 286.

Information:

McAlee Plate coin. This coin is cited and illustrated in McAlee, Richard. The Coins of Roman Antioch. (Lancaster, PA, 2007); also cited in Amandry, M., A. Burnett & J. Mairat. Roman Provincial Coinage III, From Nerva to Hadrian (AD 96–138). (London & Paris, 2015). This coin belongs to the first of two groups of large SC bronzes from the mint of Antioch. Characteristic of this first group is that the coins never have bevelled flans and hadrian's portrait usually has a long neck: see Butcher, p. 358.

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