RPC IV.4, 2120

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 2120
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΓ = 23
Dating AD 159/60
Obverse inscription ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕ
Edition Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσε(βής)
Translation Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design radiate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΓ
Edition (ἔτους) κγʹ
Translation of year 23
Reverse design to left, Euthenia standing, facing, head, right, crowned with corn (?), holding corn-stalk; (at her feet, kalathos); to right, Homonoia standing, facing, head, left, crowned with kalathos, holding cornucopia (and patera)
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 12.07 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2235, D 2237, pl. XII (rev.), Geissen 1838, M 2400
Specimens 12 (5 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     O: HCR26802 M 2400
2 2     ✸ CNG EA 50, 9 Oct. 2002, lot 50
3 3     Dattari = Naville Numismatics 50, 23 June 2019, lot 296
4 4     L: 1864,1118.491 BMC 961, pl. VIII (rev.)
5 5     NY: 1944.100.59004
6 6     NY: 1944.100.59005
7 7     V: GR 24778
8 8     Cologne Geissen 1838
9 9     Cologne Geissen 1839
10 10     Aiello
11 11     D 2235 = Naville Numismatics 75, 31 July 2022, lot 353
12 12     Emporium Hamburg 71, 8 May 2014, lot 196