RPC IV.4, 427

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 427
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
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, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design centaur (Chiron) standing, right, head, left, raising foreleg, holding helmet, arm around Achilles advancing, right, brandishing spear, holding shield
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 21.46 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference D 2505, pl. XI (rev.), DS 8369, DS Suppl pl 15, 38, Geissen 1873
Specimens 10 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cologne Geissen 1873
2 2     Aiello
3 3     ✸ CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 218 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 164 (Staffieri) = Roma Numismatics XVI, 26 Sept. 2018, lot 477
4 4     D 2505, pl. XI (rev.) = Naville Numismatics 67, 1 Aug. 2021, lot 213
5 5     Dattari = DS 8369
6 6     DS Suppl pl 15, 38 = Ars et Nummus List 4–5 (1972), 357 (Figari - Mosconi 799)
7 7     Peus EA 420, 18 Nov. 2017, lot 6636
8 8     Rauch E-20, 27 June 2016, lot 173
9 9     Triton 1 (2–3. 12. 1997), 730
10 10     Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 108 (pl. 21l (rev.)) = Ars et Nummus list 1–3 (1975), 206 (not seen)