RPC IV.4, 1192

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1192
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΓ = 13
Dating AD 149/50
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription L ΤΡΙϹΚΑΙΔ
Reverse design Dioscuri, each crowned with star, riding towards each other; (between, thymiaterion); (above, crescent)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Reference D 2527–8?, DS 8399–8401, Geissen 1636
Specimens 12 (4 in the core collections)
Note On front-facing busts the traces of a cuirass may be minimal, so that there is little distinction between this bust type and a laureate-headed bust wearing paludamentum, r.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2261 SNG 2508
2 2     P: 2413 SNG 2746
3 3     NY: 1974.26.3706
4 4     NY: 1944.100.60605
5 5     Cologne Geissen 1636
6 6     Aiello
7 7     Aiello
8 8     Berk 86 (11. 7. 1995), 1178 = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 113 = Kunst und Münzen XXII (1981), lot 322 (Figari - Mosconi 593)
9 9     ✸ CNG EA 336, 8 Oct. 2014, lot 229
10 10     CNG Triton VI, 14 Jan. 2003, lot 595 = CNG 47 (16. 9. 1998), 1021
11 11     Matthijs = Pegasi Buy or Bid Sale 147, 24 Feb. 2015, lot 256
12 12     Rauch E-15, 16 June 2014, lot 123 = Matthijs