RPC IV.4, 1891

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1891
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Κ = 20
Dating AD 156/7
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ (Κ) ΑΙ(Λ) ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription L Κ
Edition ἔτους κʹ (ἔτους) κʹ
Translation of year 20
Reverse design Nilus, with crocodile beside him, reclining left, holding reed (and cornucopia); (below, water-plants)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 25.11 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 2762, DS 8643, Geissen 1784
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 2, 5: same obv. die as 1876/3, 1878/6, 1899/1–3, 1978/1.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: no number
2 2     Cologne Geissen 1784
3 3     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 237
4 4     ✸ CNG EA 113, 11 May 2005, lot 173
5 5     Dattari = D 2762
6 6     Emporium Hamburg 81, 23 Oct. 2018, lot 326