RPC IV.4, 1993

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1993
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΑ = 21
Dating AD 157/8
Obverse inscription ΑΥ(Τ) Κ (Τ [ΑΙ?]) (ΑΔΡ) ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥ(Ϲ)
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴ(λιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΑ
Edition ἔτους καʹ (ἔτους) καʹ
Translation of year 21
Reverse design Nilus seated on rocks up which crocodile climbs, right, holding cornucopia, (from which Genius issues holding wreath), and reed
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 21.18 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2746, DS 8627, M 2359
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 4–5: same obv. die as 1977/15, 1983/11–12, 1999/9–10, 15.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 5334
2 2     O: HCR33597 M 2359
3 3     A: D 1902A / 215/728
4 4     ✸ CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 239
5 5     DS 15367 = Naville Numismatics 65, 30 May 2021, lot 278
6 6     Matthijs