RPC IV.4, 461

Province Egypt
City Alexandria 
Region Egypt
Reign Antoninus Pius
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΚΑΙϹ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ L Ε
Obverse design bare head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Reverse design Heracles and Pholus: to left, forepart of centaur leaning on staff; to right, Heracles seated on lion skin on rocks, right, head, left, reaching out to centaur, holding lyre; against rocks, club; left field framed by vine; to right, attendant and crater on stand

Coin no. 2 of RPC IV.4, 461

 

Museum Vatican Library, Rome (Italy)
Inventory no. Mt.Gr.Aegyptus.NummiAlexandrini.702
Reference Zoëga p. 176, no. 117 (pl. XI)
Diameter 34
Weight
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Note Tooled. Obverse legend altered to end ΑΝΤΩΝƐΙΝΟϹ. The form Ω is never used on coins of Alexandria in the Antonine period, and the spelling of Antoninus with an epsilon is not paralleled for this year.
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