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IV.4, 736
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4.4/736
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Volume
IV.4
Number
736
Province
Egypt
Region
Egypt
City
Alexandria
Reign
Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.)
Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue
Year Η = 8
Dating
AD 144/5
Obverse inscription
ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤ
ω
Ν(
Ε
)ΙΝΟϹ Ϲ
Ε
Β
Ε
ΥϹ
Obverse design
laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription
L Η
Reverse design
to left, Apollo seated on rocks, right, playing lyre; to right, Marsyas hanging from tree; between, at feet, figure kneeling, left (or right), sharpening knife (?); at base of tree, tripod(?)
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
35 mm
Axis
12
Specimens
4 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links
3: same obv. die as 839/10, 843/6, 863/9. 4: same obv. die as 753/6, 863/7.
Note
Some V forms. Milne read the date from the specimen he published in
JEA
36 (1950), pp. 83–5. The date is not clear from the published image but the obverse die-links, also noted by Milne, confirm it. Milne notes the previous publication of a specimen in Florence by Zoëga (p. 166 no. 36) and another specimen by Mionnet: VI, 283/I948 and pl. opp. IX, 24.
Specimens of this coin type
Number
Number
Obverse
Reverse
Museum
Bibliography
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Note
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1
1
✸
P: 2404 (Pellerin)
SNG 2326
35
28.89
12
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2
2
CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 222 = Curtis,
Survey
pl. XXVII = CNG 22 (2. 9. 1992), 715
35
20.61
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3
3
JEA
36 (1950), 83–5
35
shown at Ashmolean by R. L. Sandys-Wood of University College
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4
4
NFA 32 (10. 6. 1993), 316
34
24.93
12
Forgery? The fabric is suspicious, as the edge is not bevelled. The reverse is very close to that of P 2404 (SNG 2326) but with differences, for example in the treatment of Apollo's leg. The missing feet of Marsyas oddly recall the broken statue of Marsyas in Istanbul with missing lower legs. The obverse 'die' is shared with other apparently genuine struck coins. Possibly cast from genuine coins and then tooled.
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