RPC IV.4, 1991

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1991
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΑ = 21
Dating AD 157/8
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΑΙ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝ[ΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥ]Ϲ (?)
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Αἴ(λιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pious
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, left
Reverse inscription L ΚΑ
Edition ἔτους καʹ (ἔτους) καʹ
Translation of year 21
Reverse design Nilus seated on rocks up which crocodile climbs, left, holding reed and cornucopia, from which Genius issues holding wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 25.56 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 1981/1.
Note Obverse legend retrograde.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1973.56.844
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60875