RPC IV.4, 428

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 428
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 Α]ΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤω[ΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒ (?)
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβ(ής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (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 32 mm
Average weight 20.95 g
Reference DS 8370
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Aiello = Curtis, Survey pl. XXVII = JEA 41 (1955), 119
2 2     DS 8370 = Classical Numismatic Review (Vol. XLII, No. 3, Summer 2017), lot 468723 = Naville Numismatics 32, 18 June 2017, lot 277