RPC IV.4, 96

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 96
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Β = 2
Dating AD 138/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβ(ής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L Β
Edition (ἔτους) βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design monumental altar or flat-roofed temple with six columns, uncertain figure at each end of base, enclosing female figure, wearing kalathos(?), dropping incense on altar; above, pyre; acroteria in form of aphlasta
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 24.16 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 3007, DS 8858
Specimens 5 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BNK,G.934 BMC 1200, pl. XXIX (rev.)
2 2     C: 669-1948
3 3     Bern: (Righetti 2736)
4 4     Münster: M 1707
5 5     ✸ Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 154