RPC IV.4, 459

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 459
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription [L Ε]
Reverse design Heracles and Cerberus: Heracles advancing, right, head, left, club over shoulder, dragging Cerberus from entrance to Hades
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 1
Reference DS 2607 (not same as D 2607)
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 2: same obv. die as 529/8. 1–2: same rev. die.
Note Clearly belongs to a Labours of Heracles series of year 4, 5, or 6. The obverse style is wrong for the series of year 10. It is not from the same reverse die as those clearly reading year 5 or year 6, although it is close to both. The obverse die-link with year 5 makes the dating to year 5 highly plausible.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Dattari = DS 2607
2 2     ✸ SAN 4, 4 (1972–3), 63–6 (John Hopkins University) ex Malloy = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 213