RPC IV.4, 831

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 831
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 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 bare-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L Η
Edition ἔτους ηʹ (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation of year 8
Reverse design zodiac: draped jugate busts of Helios, wearing radiate crown, and Selene, wearing crescent, left, within circle of signs of zodiac anticlockwise with Aries at top
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 22.82 g
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same rev. die as 832/1, 3.
Note aries (ram) l.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2120 SNG 2336
2 2     CNG 115, 16 Sept. 2020, lot 494
3 3     ✸ The New York Sale 2 (2. 12. 1999), 166 = Freeman and Sear 6 (Summer 2001), 115