RPC IV.4, 739

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 739
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Η = 8
Dating AD 144/5
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ(Ι) ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρι(ανὸς) Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Η
Edition ἔτους ηʹ (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation of year 8
Reverse design Apollo Didymeus, holding (stag and) bow, standing, facing; either side, two Nemeses facing him, one on right holds cubit rule
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 24.03 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2451, DS 8309–10
Specimens 10 (3 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1973.56.839
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60311
3 3     NY: 1944.100.60310
4 4     A: D 1670A / 2624 / 12115
5 5     Aiello
6 6     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 193
7 7     DS 8310 = Karl Kress 154 (1972), lot 363 (Figari - Mosconi 571)
8 8     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 265, 14 Oct. 2019, lot 1181 = Naville Numismatics 23, 12 June 2016, lot 252 from the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection
9 9     Hess 251 (7. 5. 1981), 161
10 10     Münzhandlung Basel 6 (18.3.1936), 694 (obv. type?)