Hadrian drachm Year 11 Dattari 1832?

[wileyc]

So I picked up this Hadrian Tet   drachm at a local show totally on impulse for its eye appeal.......the dealer had it attributed and I do not doubt his attribution. My question is the reverse appears to be a match for the coin from coin archives (top one) I have posted. So I am okay there I think,  my question is  how would I attribute the obverse?  is this Hadrian as Augustus….forgive my ignorance if I phrase my question wrongly…. I do not have BMC.

Dealer attribution
Hadrian
Egypt Tet,  drachm Alexandria
Rev: [LENΔEK – ATOV] ?  Serapis seated l. on throne, holding sceptre and placing r. hand on head of Cerberus at his feet
obv \: bust rt
34mm 22.08 gm
BMC 737

Cordially as always

CW

[archivum]

At 34mm this is surely a bronze drachm not a tet, reverse Hades-Serapis seated l., Year 11; several members can give you the Milne-Dattari references, and will probably do so in a hurry if you make your title more specific. See also the coins pictured on www.wildwinds./com/coins/greece/egypt/alexandria/t.html and at coinsofromanegypt.org.

[wileyc]

Thank you archivum, (subject changed to drachm)
 
am I to understand then that this is Serapis with his hand on Hades not Cerberus? Cerberus being the guardian of the underworld are they one and the same as in represented on this coin? I ask this as the attribution I quoted came from the V-coins site and seems to me in  my humble eye to be the same reverse?

cw

ps I will be checking the sites you referenced

[archivum]

Serapis is often conflated with Hades in Egypt, and Kerberos is Hades' attendant.  Your coin is clearly a very close relative of this specimen (a now-blocked online listing), so the given Dattari reference will just about do for your specimen; I am worried however about the odd error in your legend, KIA rather than KAI.  If you edit your title once more to read Hadrian drachm Year 11 Dattari 1832? I'll bet someone with better books handy than I have will sort out these questions in no time.

[iwaniw]

Wileyc:

It is an earlier issue for Hadrian (years 2 to 8 style).  The inscription appears to be:  AVTKAITRAI---ADRIACEB, so I would guess a year from 4 to 8. In that range there are year 6 and 8 specimens known -- all are rarer than the year 11 types. However the style of the year 11 pieces is more in demand.

year 6= Dattari 1831; year 8 = Dattari/Savio 7771

(It looks like it might be L---H on your specimen, =year 8. You should confirm the reading of the date)

Iwaniw

[wileyc]

Thanks for your help

cw

[archivum]

I didn't read your first message closely enough and thought you were inquiring about the first coin in the message; iwaniw is quite right about the the second coin that you've pictured, the one that you actually bought!