RPC IV.4, 1702

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1702
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΗ = 18
Dating AD 154/5
Obverse inscription ΑΥ]Τ Κ ΑΙ (Α)ΔΡ ΑΝΤ[ΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥ (?)
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Αἴ(λιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐ(σεβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription [L ΙΗ] (?)
Edition ἔτους ιηʹ (ἔτους) ιηʹ
Translation of year 18
Reverse design Lycurgus right, knee on vine-stump, arms pulled behind by vines (?), head raised; between legs, axe
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 22.66 g
Axis 11
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same rev. die as 1700/1–6.
Note For the date see the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/23941. Year 18 is plausible but year 17 cannot be ruled out. Indeed the obverse inscription is otherwise recorded for year 17 but not 18, and the die is very close to one used for year 17.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 166 (Staffieri) = Empire Coins 8 (7 Dec. 1987), lot 596