RPC IV.4, 625

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 625
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ϛ = 6
Dating AD 142/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβ(ής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ϛ
Edition ἔτους ϛʹ (ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation of year 6
Reverse design Heracles and the Cretan bull: Heracles standing, right, foot on rock(?), grasping horn and muzzle of bull rearing, right, head, left; behind, lion skin on club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 22.01 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 2610, DS 8501, M 1737a
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same rev. die.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: Löbb.
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60995
3 3     O: HCR33300 M 1737a
4 4     D 2610 = Naville Numismatics 26, 23 Oct. 2016, lot 169
5 5     ✸ DS 8501 = Münzen und Medaillen 46 (28. 4. 1972), 206 (Figari - Mosconi 621) = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 201 = Lanz 44 (16. 5. 1988), 590 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 154 (Staffieri)