RPC IV.4, 978

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 978
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ι = 10
Dating AD 146/7
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
Reverse design Heracles and the Amazon: Heracles, (with lion skin over arm), club over shoulder (or raising club), standing, right, grasping girdle of Amazon Hippolyte, who lies on fallen horse; (beneath horse, axe)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Reference D 2617, 2618 = DS 8506, DS 2618, M 1915c
Specimens 9 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60445
2 2     O: HCR33405 M 1915c = JEA 29 (1943), pl. IV, 4
3 3     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 206
4 4     D 2617 = Münzen und Medaillen 26 (1972), 207 (Figari - Mosconi 625)
5 5     Dattari = DS 2618
6 6     DS 8506 = Naville Numismatics 36, 3 Dec. 2017, lot 423
7 7     Numismatica Ars Classica / Spink Taisei 16. 11. 1994, 844 = Münzen und Medaillen 46 (28. 4. 1972), 207 = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 35 (pl. 12n)
8 8     Peus 420, 1 Nov. 2017, lot 319 = Curtis, JEA 41 (1955), 119-20 (pl. XXIV, 4)
9 9     ✸ Simpson 122 = CNG Triton V, 15 Jan. 2002, lot 1785