RPC IV.4, 623

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 623
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 ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus 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 apples of the Hesperides: Heracles wearing lion skin, club over shoulder, advancing, right, picking apple from tree, around which is entwined a serpent
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 24.95 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 8496?, M 1737c
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.50272
2 2     ✸ O: HCR33303 M 1737c = JEA 29 (1943), pl. IV, 3
3 3     DS 8496 = Naville Numismatics 26, 23 Oct. 2016, lot 175