RPC IV.4, 460

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 460
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 ΕΥϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβ(ής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design bust of Heracles, wearing lion skin, club over shoulder, and draped bust of Hermes, crowned with lotus, jugate, right; before, winged caduceus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 26.27 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference DS 8508, Geissen 1393, M 1678 corr.
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60993
2 2     O: HCR33270 M 1678
3 3     A: D 1613B / 1896/7, IA 288/529
4 4     Cologne Geissen 1393
5 5     DS 8508 = Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 167
6 6     ✸ Staffieri
7 7     The New York Sale 2 (2. 12. 1999), 167 (Figari - Mosconi 627)