RPC IV.4, 518

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 518
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 Orpheus seated on rocks, right, holding lyre, surrounded by animals
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Average weight 28.60 g
Axis 12
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Cast forgery? The reverse die is close to, but not the same, as https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/22857.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ CNG Triton V, 15 Jan. 2002, lot 1778 = Finarte, 26 Nov. 1996, lot 940 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 165 (Staffieri)