RPC IV.4, 252

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 252
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Δ = 4
Dating AD 140/1
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΥ
Edition (ἔτους) τετάρτου
Translation of year 4
Reverse design Heracles and the Nemean lion: nude Heracles (youthful) standing, right, grasping lion by the jaws and lifting it out of cave; (behind, club)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.20 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note Some V forms on obverse.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: 28798
2 2     Bern: 80.565 Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums 63–4 (1983–4), 174 no. 8 = Hess 251 (7. 5. 1981), 160