RPC IV.4, 944

 

Image of specimen #12

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 944
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Θ = 9
Dating AD 145/6
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙ(Λ) ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝ(Ε)ΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L ΕΝΑΤΟΥ
Reverse design Ammon, crowned with (horns and) disk, standing, facing, head, left, holding patera (or atef crown(?)) and long sceptre; at feet, ram, (crowned with (horns and) disk)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 2953, 2956, DS 8815–16, 8822, Geissen 1526
Specimens 16 (7 in the core collections)
Die-links 11: same obv. die as 946/1.
Note Some V forms. For Ammon holding an atef crown(?), cf. RPC III, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15101 and RPC online VI, temp. no. 10001.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1841,0730.206 BMC 1022
2 2     P: 2170 SNG 2398
3 3     P: AA.GR.5553 (Doubles 590) SNG 2399
4 4     B: (a. B.)
5 5     Mu: 369
6 6     NY: 1973.56.813
7 7     V: GR 24647
8 8     A: D 1697A / 2667 /11111
9 9     A: D 1721 bis A / 1896/7, I 332/613
10 10     A: 6726
11 11     Cologne Geissen 1526
12 12     ✸ Aiello
13 13     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 195 = Emmett coll.
14 14     D 2953 = Naville Numismatics 37, 28 Jan. 2018, lot 377
15 15     D 2956 = Naville Numismatics 48, 7 Apr. 2019, lot 272
16 16     Dattari = DS 8816