RPC IV.4, 444

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 444
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΚΑΙϹ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκρά(τωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Hadrianus Antoninus
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design Hades driving galloping quadriga, right, carrying Persephone into cave (entance to Hades); above, Eros; beneath horses, overturned kalathos(?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 23.22 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 8851, Geissen 1410, M 1728d corr.
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     O: HCR33279 M 1728d = JEA 37 (1951), 100
2 2     Cologne Geissen 1410
3 3     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 217 illustrated KG 35.158
4 4     ✸ CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 162 (Staffieri) = Bonhams/V.C. Vecchi & Sons 4 (4 Dec. 1980), lot 439 = Münzen und Medaillen 46 (28. 4. 1972), 196 = Matthijs
5 5     DS 8851 = Naville Numismatics 69, 14 Nov. 2021, lot 216
6 6     Münzen und Medaillen 46 (28. 4. 1972), 196