When, I
hope, clinching
identification becomes available, I'll try to take a definitive photo of it and post the whole package here.
In the meantime, see:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=44426.msg281433#msg281433 (reply#17). All my wonderful friends have been helping me identify this (to me) wonderful coin. I'll let others pay for a
Hadrian sestertius (not that I wouldn't like to have one).
If you go to
Coin Archives and look under Bithynium-Claudiopolis (carefully eliminating Ninica-Claudiopolis), what you find is
portraits of the hometown boy,
Antinous. In fact, though,
Rec Gén has only one good-sized coin for
Hadrian (p. 271, no. 11) at B.-Cl., and
Curtis wrote that all three of
his Imhoof-Blumer books
had none for this
mint.
BMC has none,
Lindgren had none, and all the
SNG are "----". This is why, despite the -
on mine, and the preservation of the
on
von Aulock 296, we all have hesitated to believe what
Icard (that
) led me to. If this pans out, Pete (Akropolis) got it first, finding
von Aulock 296 before I even sent it to
Curtis. I only narrowed it down, and so did
Doug Smith. Look at the link (above) for the Swiss contribution.
Pat L.
