RPC III, 6570

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 6570
Province Uncertain
Region Uncertain
City Uncertain
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Antinous
Obverse inscription ΠΑΝΙ ΑΝΤΙΝΟΩ
Obverse design half-length bust of Antinous, right, with drapery on left shoulder and pedum, hair crowned with ivy (?)
Reverse inscription [ ]
Reverse design horse, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note The obverse legend points towards Cius (see RPC 1054-1056) and the reverse is similar to RPC 1056. The flan of 6570/2 was hammered, the monogram PE faintly added in the field to make think of a contorniate, the obverse legend altered (6570/1 and 2 are certainly from the same obv. die), both sides tooled.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ V: GR 15761 ex Carthäuser coll. acquired in 1729 = Blum 57/2 [under ‘Provenance incertaine’] and Pl. IV, 14
2 2     Triton XII, 6 Jan. 2009, lot 617 (ex The New York Sale IX, 13 Jan. 2005, lot 144)