RPC IV.4, 1538


Image of specimen #3

Coin type
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Volume	IV.4
Number	1538
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 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 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, or Genius on back of another, inscribing dome); below, water-plants
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Average weight	23.62 g
Axis	11, 12
Reference	DS 8646, DS 8647, DS Suppl pl 17, 96, 97, Geissen 1705, M 2231
Specimens	23 (10 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	More
1	1	P: 2313	SNG 2601	34	21.26	12	Show
2	2	B: Löbb.		34	22.76	12	Show
3	3 ✸	B: (I-B)		34	20.92	12	Show
4	4	C: 51-1934		33	25.56	12	Show
5	5	NY: 1944.100.60709		35	25.86	12	Show
6	6	NY: 1944.100.60711		32	22.06	12	Show
7	7	NY: 1944.100.60712		34	21.85	12	Show
8	8	O: HCR33523	M 2231	36	26.78	12	Show
9	9	O: HCR33524	M 2232	34	23.43	12	Show
10	10	O: HCR33525	M 2233	33	25.44	12	Show
11	11	A: D 1836 / 2854 / 12053		33	19.92	12	Show
12	12	A: on display no. 87		33			Show
13	13	Cologne	Geissen 1705	34	21.05	11	Show
14	14	Cologne	Geissen 1706	33	24.79	12	Show
15	15		CNG 32 (7. 12. 1994), 498	34	24.81		Show
16	16		CNG EA 340, 3 Dec. 2014, lot 308 = CNG XXXII, 7 Dec. 1994, lot 498 = Sternberg 17 (9–10. 5. 1986), 605 = Matthijs	34	24.81	12	Show
17	17		DS 8646 = Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 217	33	27.66	12	Show
18	18		DS Suppl pl 17, 96 = Naville Numismatics 75, 31 July 2022, lot 348	34	23.03	12	Show
19	19		DS Suppl pl 17, 97 = Naville Numismatics 54, 15 Dec. 2019, lot 312	34.9	22.94		Show
20	20		Emporium Hamburg 66, 17 Nov. 2011, lot 285	34			Show
21	21		Hirsch 352, 25 Sept. 2019, lot 2923	33			Show
22	22		Künker 89, 8 Mar. 2004, lot 1800	35	23.93		Show
23	23		Sotheby 9.3.1972, coll. Jungfleisch, 105	35			Show