RPC IV.4, 521

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 521
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 ΑΝΤωΝ[ΙΝΟϹ] ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design judgement of Paris: to left, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite standing; to right, Paris seated, left, offering apple(?); behind and above whom, Hermes
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Reference DS 8848 bis
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note SAN 5, 4 (1972–3), 61–2 die Ab; SAN 6, 3 (1975), 40–2.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Curtis, SAN 5, 4 (1972–3), 61 (not illustrated) = Curtis, Survey pl 27 (reverse only, information: K. Emmett)
2 2     ✸ DS 8848 bis