RPC IV.4, 986

 

Image of specimen #10

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 986
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 Erymanthian boar: Heracles (youthful), wearing lion skin and quiver, advancing, right, carrying boar over shoulder; to left, club; to right, Eurystheus hiding in storage jar, raising arms
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.87 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference DS 8484–5, M 1911
Specimens 12 (4 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1862,0614.241 BMC 1046, pl. VI (rev)
2 2     B: 28884
3 3     NY: 1944.100.61028
4 4     O: HCR33394 M 1911
5 5     A: D 1714 / 2692 / 12441
6 6     A: D 1718C / 2703 / 12429
7 7     Yale: (Peerless)
8 8     Aiello
9 9     CNG EA 328, 11 June 2014, lot 396
10 10     ✸ DS 8484 = Triton 5 (15. 1. 2002), 1783 = Triton 11 (8–9. 1. 2008), 536 = Simpson 128 = NumCirc 91, 3 (April 1983), 1793 (Figari - Mosconi 614)
11 11     SAN 4, 4 (1972–3), 63–6 (John Hopkins University) ex Malloy = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 196
12 12     The New York Sale 1 (3.12.1998), 177 (ex Jungfleisch 104)