Watch List notes:

CILICIA. Tarsus. Hadrian, 117-138 AD. Tridrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 9.66 g, 11 h), mid 120s. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΘΕ ΤΡΑ ΠΑΡ ΥΙ ΘΕ ΝΕΡ ΥΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CE Laureate bust of Hadrian to right, with drapery on his far shoulder. Rev. TAPCEΩN MHTPOΠΟΛΕΩC Lion to left, attacking a bull kneeling to left. Prieur 765. RPC III 3264. Scratches on the fields, otherwise, good fine.



The reverse type used for this tridrachm is taken directly from the staters of Mazaios, issued over 450 years earlier; this shows that those coins were still known during the reign of Hadrian and, even, that they may well have been collected!.