RPC IV.4, 944

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 944
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Θ = 9
Dating AD 145/6
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙ(Λ) ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝ(Ε)ΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition 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 head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L ΕΝΑΤΟΥ
Edition (ἔτους) ἐνάτου
Translation of the ninth year
Reverse design Ammon, crowned with (horns and) disk, standing, facing, head, left, holding patera (or atef crown(?)) and long sceptre; at feet, ram, (crowned with (horns and) disk)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 12.72 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 2953, 2956, DS 8815–16, 8822, Geissen 1526
Specimens 17 (7 in the core collections)
Die-links 11: same obv. die as 946/1.
Note Some V forms. For Ammon holding an atef crown(?), cf. RPC III, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15101 and RPC online VI, temp. no. 10001.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1841,0730.206 BMC 1022
2 2     P: 2170 SNG 2398
3 3     P: AA.GR.5553 (Doubles 590) SNG 2399
4 4     B: (a. B.)
5 5     Mu: 369
6 6     NY: 1973.56.813
7 7     V: GR 24647
8 8     A: D 1697A / 2667 /11111
9 9     A: D 1721 bis A / 1896/7, I 332/613
10 10     A: 6726
11 11     Cologne Geissen 1526
12 12     ✸ Aiello
13 13     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 195 = Emmett coll.
14 14     D 2953 = Naville Numismatics 37, 28 Jan. 2018, lot 377
15 15     D 2956 = Naville Numismatics 48, 7 Apr. 2019, lot 272
16 16     Dattari = DS 8816
17 17     Ibrahim Sherif coll.