RPC IV.4, 736

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
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 ΑΝΤωΝ(Ε)ΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
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 Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 2404 (Pellerin) SNG 2326
2 2     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 222 = Curtis, Survey pl. XXVII = CNG 22 (2. 9. 1992), 715
3 3     JEA 36 (1950), 83–5
4 4     NFA 32 (10. 6. 1993), 316