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
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Η
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
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