RPC IV.4, 1946

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1946
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΑ = 21
Dating AD 157/8
Obverse inscription ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟ(Ϲ) ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕΒ(ΗϹ)
Edition Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσεβής
Translation Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΑ
Edition ἔτους καʹ (ἔτους) καʹ
Translation of year 21
Reverse design Nilus seated on rocks up which crocodile climbs, left, head, right, holding reed and cornucopia, (from which Genius issues, holding wreath)
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 12.97 g
Axis 10, 11, 12
Reference D 2313, pl. XIX (rev.), 2315, DS 8210
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.58950
2 2     NY: 1944.100.58949
3 3     A: D 1902 / 2943 / 12180
4 4     Bern: (Righetti 2754)
5 5     CNG EA 122, 7 Sept. 2005, lot 231 = Gorny 84 (13. 10. 1997), 5580
6 6     DS 8210 = Carlo Crippa Spring list 1997, 76 (Figari - Mosconi 517)
7 7     Leu EA 6, 9 Dec. 2018, lot 733