RPC IV.4, 1434

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1434
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙϚ = 16
Dating AD 152/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, left
Reverse inscription L ΙϚ
Edition (ἔτους) ιϛʹ
Translation of year 16
Reverse design Isis-Tyche standing, facing, head, left, wearing basileion, holding rudder and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 22.99 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 8754
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)
Note The figure of the Tyche of Alexandria (?) on coins of year 15 (see the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/23597) leads on to a somewhat similar female figure holding a rudder and cornucopia on AE 33 in year 16 and on AE 23 in year 17, this time with the characteristic basileion headdress of Isis. She is here described as Isis-Tyche (on Isis with a rudder see Bricault 2020, pp. 136-46; Bakhoum 1999, pp. 66-8).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2300
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60666
3 3     A: D 1818 / 2831 / 12036
4 4     A: D 1811A / 2821 / 12339
5 5     ✸ CNG EA 147, 6 Sept. 2006, lot 124
6 6     DS 8754 = Heidelberger Münzhandlung 20 (2000), 356 (Figari - Mosconi 716)