RPC IV.4, 146

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 146
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Β = 2
Dating AD 138/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ(Ι) ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρι(ανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσ(εβὴς) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius Augustus
Obverse design bare head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ Β
Edition ἔτους βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design Harpocrates seated on lotus-flower, left, (wearing hem-hem crown or crowned with disk), raising fingers to lips, holding lotus (or flail); (above to left, star)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 8.68 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference D 2571, DS 8458, Geissen 1305
Specimens 15 (5 in the core collections)
Note Casts exist, see SNG France 4, 2881.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1955 SNG 2157, Bakhoum 1999, p. 192, 65 (pl. XVI)
2 2     P: 2251 SNG 2158
3 3     B: Löbb.
4 4     NY: 1944.100.60097
5 5     V: GR 24799
6 6     A: D 1566 / 160/494
7 7     A: 6723
8 8     A: D 1566 / 2458
9 9     Cologne Geissen 1305
10 10     Milan SNG 1221
11 11     Milan SNG 1222
12 12     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 86 = CNG MBS 69, 8 June 2005, lot 1291 = Coin Galleries, 23 Aug. 1989, lot 419
13 13     Dattari = D 2571
14 14     ✸ DS 8458 = Naville Numismatics 20, 7 Feb. 2016, lot 375 = Kunst und Münzen 42 (1980), lot 90 (Figari - Mosconi 607)
15 15     Roma Numismatics EA 66, 9 Jan. 2020, lot 747