RPC IV.4, 851

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 851
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
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription L Η
Edition ἔτους ηʹ (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation of year 8
Reverse design zodiac, Saturn in Aquarius: bust of Cronus, left, veiled and crowned with disk, (sickle at shoulder); below, Aquarius swimming, left, head, right, holding amphora; before, star
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.02 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference D 2978, pl. XXVI (rev.), M 1824a
Specimens 16 (11 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1860,0602.89 BMC 1089
2 2     P: 2128 SNG 2356
3 3     ✸ B: 18212844, 1847/8246
4 4     B: Löbb.
5 5     B: Löbb.
6 6     G SNG 4185 = MacDonald III, 469, no. 467, pl. LXXXVIII, 9
7 7     NY: 1944.100.60361
8 8     NY: 1944.100.60363
9 9     NY: 1944.100.60362
10 10     O: HCR33348 M 1824a
11 11     V: GR 24637
12 12     Boston: 1985.1310
13 13     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 173
14 14     CNG Triton XIX, 5 Jan. 2016, lot 379 = Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 Dec. 1990), lot 175 = John Work Garrett Collection (Part 1, Numismatic Fine Arts/Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 1010 (part of) = SAN 4 (1972–3), 48 (John Hopkins University) = Niggeler 741
15 15     D 2978 = Peus Lagerliste 19 (1971), 81 (Figari - Mosconi 747)
16 16     NFA-Leu 16. 5. 1984, coll. Garrett I, 798 = SAN 4 (1972–3), 48 (John Hopkins University, ex Malloy) = Stack's 10. 6. 1970, coll. Knobloch, 567