RPC IV.4, 1389

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1389
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙƐ = 15
Dating AD 151/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΕ
Edition (ἔτους) ιεʹ
Translation of year 15
Reverse design serpent (Agathodaemon) erect, (winged), right, crowned with skhent
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 7.76 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 3066 corr. (DS), 3079, DS 8931–2
Specimens 7 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 3, 6: same rev. die as 1313/2, 6–8, 10, 1314/2, 5–6. 5: same rev. die as 1313/5, 9, 1314/1, 3, 7–8. 7: same rev. die as 1313/1, 3, 1390/8.
Note On some the date has been altered from L ΙΔ on the die.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     G SNG 4226 = MacDonald III, 475, no. 504
2 2     Bern: (Righetti 2751)
3 3     CNG EA 346, 11 Mar. 2015, lot 356
4 4     D 3066 corr. = Naville Numismatics 34, 17 Sept. 2017, lot 281
5 5     Dattari
6 6     ✸ Dattari = D 3079
7 7     Dattari = DS 8931 = Naville Numismatics 63, 7 Feb. 2021, lot 319