RPC IV.4, 852

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 852
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 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 laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Η
Edition (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 23.28 g
Axis 2, 12
Reference D 2979, DS 8836, Geissen 1506
Specimens 14 (3 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1864,1118.447 BMC 1088, pl. XII (rev.)
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60364
3 3     NY: 1935.117.781
4 4     A: 2621 / 12119 JIAN 2 (1899), 81 no. 6, pl. 7, 6 (rev.)
5 5     A: 2619a / 215 JIAN 2 (1899), 81 no. 7
6 6     Boston: 1998.536
7 7     Cologne Geissen 1506
8 8    
9 9     ✸ CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 174 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 129 (Staffieri)
10 10     CNG 88, 14 Sept. 2011, lot 1095
11 11     CNG EA 125, 26 Oct. 2005, lot 156
12 12     DS 8836 = Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 190
13 13     Matthijs
14 14     Münzen und Medaillen 13 (17. 6. 1954), 954