RPC IV.4, 620

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 620
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 ΕΥϹΕΒ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ϛ
Reverse design Heracles and Pholus: to left, forepart of centaur leaning on staff(?); to right, Heracles seated on lion skin on rocks, right, head, left, reaching out to centaur, holding lyre; against rocks, club; left field framed by vine; to right, attendant and crater
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Reference Geissen 1428
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–7: same rev. die as 621/2.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1862,0614.256 BMC 1057 corr., pl. VI (rev.) = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 81 (pls. 18f, g (rev.))
2 2     P: 2062 (Wiczay 861) SNG 2272
3 3     A: D 1637 / 2565 / 11972
4 4     Bern: 80.561 Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums 63–4 (1983–4), 175 no. 14 = Hess 247 (29. 6. 1978), 337 corr.
5 5     Cologne Geissen 1428
6 6     Frankfurt Förschner 578 corr.
7 7     Aiello