RPC IV.4, 827

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 827
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 ΑΝΤωΝ(Ε)ΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Η
Reverse design zodiac: bust of Sarapis within inner circle of planet-gods (clockwise: Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury) and outer circle of signs of zodiac anticlockwise with Aries at top
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 6, 11, 12
Reference Geissen 1491 (cast)
Specimens 13 (8 in the core collections)
Note Casts exist: Geissen 1491 cf V: GR 33521, another in Munich; copy of V 24638 in Vienna forgeries. A number of specimens are tooled. Libra appears to be depicted as either a figure with scales or just scales. The latter requires verifcation as only on tooled specimens. Some Υ forms.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: TOW.1603 BMC 1079, pl. XII (rev.)
2 2     P: 2118 SNG 2338
3 3     P: 2117 SNG 2339
4 4     Cop: 457
5 5     G SNG 4180 = MacDonald III, 468, no. 461, pl. LXXXVIII, 8
6 6     NY: 1944.100.68846
7 7     V: GR 24638
8 8     V: GR 33521 Bachofen 1906 Nr. 1329
9 9     A: D 1661 / 2607 JIAN 2 (1899), 84 no. 23, pl. 7, 1 (rev.)
10 10     Cologne Geissen 1491
11 11     ✸ Aiello = Curtis, JEA 41 (1955), 119-20 (pl. XXIV, 7)
12 12     Berk Buy or Bid Sale 213, 19 Nov. 2020, lot 458
13 13     Sotheby 9.3.1972, coll. Jungfleisch, 102