RPC IV.4, 619

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 619
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ϛ = 6
Dating AD 142/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ 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 Ϛ
Edition ἔτους ϛʹ (ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation of year 6
Reverse design Heracles and Cerberus: Heracles advancing, right, head, left, club over shoulder, dragging Cerberus from entrance to Hades
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 32.51 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same rev. die.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Aiello = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 40 private coll. (pl. 6g (rev.)) = JEA 41 (1955), 119 Curtis coll. (pl. XXIV, 2 (rev.))
2 2     CNG MBS 76, 12 Sept. 2007, lot 1006 = CNG Triton V, 15 Jan. 2002, lot 1780