RPC IV.4, 716

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 716
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ζ = 7
Dating AD 143/4
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥ[Β(?)
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἀδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ζ
Edition (ἔτους) ζʹ
Translation of year 7
Reverse design Asclepius standing, facing, head, right, hand on hip, holding serpent-staff (or club entwined by serpent?); to left, Egyptian altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Average weight 12.58 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 8337, Geissen 1444
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 2–3: same obv. die as 712/1, 713/1, 879/1, 881/1–3.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cologne Geissen 1444
2 2     ✸ CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 96 = Elsen 134, 9 Sept. 2017, lot 497
3 3     DS 8337 = Naville Numismatics 50, 23 June 2019, lot 280