RPC IV.4, 992

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 992
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ι = 10
Dating AD 146/7
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ 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 ΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
Edition (ἔτους) δεκάτου
Translation of year 10
Reverse design Heracles and the Nemean lion: nude Heracles (youthful) standing, left, grasping lion by the jaws and lifting it; behind, club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.37 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2594, DS 8482, M 1915a
Specimens 11 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 96/1892
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60436
3 3     O: HCR33403 M 1915a = JEA 29 (1943), pl. IV, 6
4 4     A: D 1718B / 2702 / 12432
5 5     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 191
6 6     CNG Mail Bid Sale 76/1 (12. 9. 2007), 986 = Gorny & Mosch 191, 11 Oct. 2010, lot 1885 = CNG MBS 76, 12 Sept. 2007, lot 986 = CNG 50, 23 June 1999, lot 1169.
7 7     ✸ D 2594 = Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 201
8 8     Dattari = DS 8482
9 9     Gorny & Mosch 196, 7 Mar. 2011, lot 2315
10 10     NFA-Leu 16. 5. 1984, coll. Garrett I, 805 = Auctiones 27 (10. 12. 1996), 463 = SAN 4, 4 (1972–3), 63–6 (John Hopkins University) ex Malloy
11 11     Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 14 (pl. 12c) = Bayerische Vereinsbank München 3 (1973), 148