RPC IV.4, 474

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 474
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 Heracles and the Nemean lion: Heracles (youthful) standing, right, dragging lion in strangle-hold from its cave; behind, club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.73 g
Axis 1
Reference DS Suppl pl 16, 58, Geissen 1395
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 502/1913
2 2     ✸ Cologne Geissen 1395 = ZPE 50 (1983), pl. XVII, 2,
3 3     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 188 illustrated KG 35.143
4 4     CNG 22 (2. 9. 1992), 714