RPC IV.4, 571

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 571
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus) ; Faustina I (Diva)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ [ΕΥ]ϹΕΒ
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 emperor (Antoninus Pius), bare-headed, wearing toga, holding scroll, standing, right, clasping hands with Faustina I, veiled, standing, left, holding long sceptre; between, thymiaterion
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 24.35 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference DS 8302, Geissen 1399
Specimens 8 (4 in the core collections)
Note For the sroll compare RIC III, 381; Beckmann 2012, p. 36, fig. 2.17. The type evoked, but did not precisely copy, what appears to be a statue group on roughly contemporary sestertii from Rome (Beckmann 2012, pp. 35–7; 79; RIC III, 601; 1129).
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2025 SNG 2025
2 2     ✸ B: 18221413, 1906 Löbbecke
3 3     NY: 1944.100.60190
4 4     NY: 1944.100.60189
5 5     A: 2554 / 11962
6 6     Cologne Geissen 1399
7 7     DS 8302 = Naville Numismatics 36, 3 Dec. 2017, lot 418
8 8     Matthijs