RPC IV.4, 621

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 621
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ϛ = 6
Dating AD 142/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L] Ϛ
Reverse design Heracles and Pholus: to left, forepart of centaur leaning on staff; to right, Heracles seated on lion skin on rocks, right, head, left, reaching out to centaur, holding lyre; against rocks, club; left field framed by vine; to right, attendant and crater
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Reference DS 8507
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 2: same rev. die as 620/1–7.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.60274
2 2     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 215 = Peus 384, 2 Nov. 2005, lot 913 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 160 (Staffieri)