RPC IV.4, 979

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 979
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 head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L ΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
Reverse design Heracles and the Amazon: Heracles, with lion skin over arm, club over shoulder(?), standing, right, grasping girdle of Amazon Hippolyte, who lies on fallen horse
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Reference Geissen 1539
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.60446
2 2     Cologne Geissen 1539