RPC IV.4, 1587

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1587
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-headed bust of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΖ
Edition (ἔτους) ιζʹ
Translation of year 17
Reverse design monumental altar or flat-roofed temple with six columns, garlanded, barriers between columns, uncertain figure at each end of base; above, pyre; acroteria in form of aphlasta
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 22.34 g
Axis 1, 11, 12
Reference Geissen 1701
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
Note Portrait intermediate between head and bust or with full bust.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.60756
2 2     Cologne Geissen 1701
3 3     CNG 85, 15 Sept. 2010, lot 723
4 4     Leu EA 16, 22 May 2021, lot 2370
5 5     Malloy 14 (2.7.1979), 299
6 6     Bonn: P.24.075