RPC IV.4, 523

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 523
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 ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Reverse design judgement of Paris: Aphrodite standing, Hera seated, and Athena standing on rocks; to left, Paris and Hermes standing; before rocks, animals
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 1, 12
Specimens 8 (2 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms. SAN 5, 4 (1972–3), 61-2; SAN 6, 3 (1975), 40–2 (Ac Hera seated).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: 1030/1892 ZfN 21 (1898), 234–5 (pl. VI, 10) = SAN 6, 3 (1975), 40 (illustrated)
2 2     V: GR 24589 JDAI 3 (1888), 293, no. 5 (pl. 9, 23) = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 109 (pl. 22a, e (rev.)) = M. Staal coll.
3 3     A: D 1626 / 2547 / 12063
4 4     Aiello
5 5     CNG 30 (11. 6. 1994), 487
6 6     Münzhandlung Basel 6 (18.3.1936), 661 = SAN 5, 4 (1972–3), 62
7 7     Roma Numismatics EA 43, 3 Feb. 2018, lot 381
8 8     The New York Sale 1 (3.12.1998), 175 (ex Jungfleisch 108)