RPC IV.4, 782

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 782
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Η = 8
Dating AD 144/5
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 ΛΙΒΥΗ L Η
Edition Λιβύη ἔτους ηʹ Λιβύη (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation Libya, of year 8
Reverse design nome (Libya): Ammon-Ra standing, facing, head, right, crowned with ram's horns, winged disk and uraei, holding sceptre and ram with sun disk
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 24.12 g
Axis 12
Reference DS pl. 303 (top), 10991, M 1840b, WG pp. 280–1, 2.8, II
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1930,0622.20 BMC Suppl N.117 = NC 5th series 12 (1932), 213 no. 12, pl. XVI (rev.), ex Peckitt
2 2     ✸ O: HCR33367 M 1840b
3 3     A: D 3591A / 5102
4 4     DS pl. 303 (top) = Naville Numismatics 72, 27 Mar. 2022, lot 392