RPC IV.4, 831

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 831
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 ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L Η
Edition (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation of year 8
Reverse design zodiac: draped jugate busts of Helios, wearing radiate crown, and Selene, wearing crescent, left, within circle of signs of zodiac anticlockwise with Aries at top
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 22.82 g
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same rev. die as 832/1, 3.
Note aries (ram) l.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2120 SNG 2336
2 2     CNG 115, 16 Sept. 2020, lot 494
3 3     ✸ The New York Sale 2 (2. 12. 1999), 166 = Freeman and Sear 6 (Summer 2001), 115