RPC IV.4, 2080


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	IV.4
Number	2080
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.)	Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue	Year ΚΒ = 22
Dating	AD 158/9
Obverse inscription	Τ Κ ΑΔΡΙΑ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥ
Obverse design	laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery(?), left
Reverse inscription	L ΚΒ
Reverse design	Ares advancing, right, holding trophy and spear
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	32 mm
Axis	12
Reference	Geissen 1869
Specimens	6 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links	1, 5–6: same obv. die as 1970/2, 1973/1–3, 2090/6.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸	NY: 1944.100.60906		31	19.07	12		Show
2	2	A: D 1930 bis / 1896/7, I 412/746		33	22.86	12		Show
3	3	Cologne	Geissen 1869	34	18.82	12		Show
4	4	Winterthur: G 5790	GrMW III, 1717	32.7	14.88	12		Show
5	5		CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 242	33	25.66			Show
6	6		Dattari = D 2465 corr.?	30.2	20.05		Dattari read the date as L ΚΓ but this reverse type was characeristic of year 22 and the traces of the numerals are not sufficiently clear to warrant creating a new type for year 23. The obverse die was otherwise used in years 21 and 22.	Show