RPC IV.4, 1537

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1537
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΖ = 17
Dating AD 153/4
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙ(Λ) ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥ(Ϲ)
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, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΖ
Edition (ἔτους) ιζʹ
Translation of year 17
Reverse design Nilus, with crocodile beside him, reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia, (from which issues Genius holding wreath); before, dome (inscribed ΙϚ), in front of which stands Genius (or beside which, Genius on back of another, inscribing dome); below, water-plants
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 23.51 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 2763, 2766, DS 8645, Geissen 1707, M 2234 corr.
Specimens 19 (9 in the core collections)
Die-links 19: same rev. die as 1543/1.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60716
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60715
3 3     NY: 1924.69.21
4 4     NY: 0000.999.25312
5 5     NY: 1944.100.60717
6 6     NY: 1944.100.60718
7 7     NY: 1944.100.60555
8 8     O: HCR33528
9 9     O: HCR33526 M 2234 corr.
10 10     A: 2856a /252
11 11     Cologne Geissen 1707
12 12     Cologne Geissen 1709
13 13     Cologne Geissen 1710
14 14     Milan SNG 1310
15 15     ✸ Aiello
16 16     Becker coll.
17 17     D 2763 = Naville Numismatics 32, 18 June 2017, lot 283
18 18     Dattari = D 2766
19 19     Peus 420, 1 Nov. 2017, lot 324