RPC IV.4, 831

 

Image of specimen #3

 

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
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L Η
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
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same rev. die as 832/1, 3.
Note aries (ram) l.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number 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