RPC IV.4, 479

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 479
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 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 head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design Heracles and the Stymphalian birds: Heracles standing, right, wearing lion skin and quiver, shooting upwards with bow and arrow; to right, in air and on ground, birds; behind, club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 25.86 g
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1864,1118.453 BMC 1048, pl. VI (rev.)
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60994
3 3     ✸ Triton 5 (15. 1. 2002), 1777 = Triton 11 (8–9. 1. 2008), 530 = Simpson 121 = NumCirc 89, 12 (December 1981), 8364