RPC IV.4, 1381

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1381
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Faustina II (Augusta)
Issue Year ΙƐ = 15
Dating AD 151/2
Obverse inscription ΦΑΥϹΤΙΝ ϹΕΒ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕΒ ΘΥΓ
Edition Φαυστῖν(α) Σεβ(αστὴ) Σεβ(αστοῦ) Εὐσεβ(οῦς) Θυγ(άτηρ)
Translation Faustina Augusta, daughter of Pius Augustus
Obverse design draped bust of Faustina II, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΕ
Edition (ἔτους) ιεʹ
Translation of year 15
Reverse design Tyche of Alexandria (?) standing, facing, head, right, turreted, holding rudder and small figure of Hermes(?), wearing hem-hem crown, holding purse and caduceus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 25.31 g
Axis 12
Reference D 3299
Specimens 7 (4 in the core collections)
Note See the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/23597.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: Löbb.
2 2     NY: 1974.26.3850
3 3     NY
4 4     NY: 1944.100.61564
5 5     A: D 2117A / 249/877
6 6     ✸ CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 265 illustrated KG 38.73
7 7     Elsen 134, 9 Sept. 2017, lot 548 = Matthijs