RPC IV.4, 978

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 978
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 Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής 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-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
Edition ἔτους δεκάτου (ἔτους) δεκάτου
Translation of the tenth year
Reverse design Heracles and the Amazon: Heracles, (with lion skin over arm), club over shoulder (or raising club), standing, right, grasping girdle of Amazon Hippolyte, who lies on fallen horse; (beneath horse, axe)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.52 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2617, 2618 = DS 8506, DS 2618, M 1915c
Specimens 9 (2 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60445
2 2     O: HCR33405 M 1915c = JEA 29 (1943), pl. IV, 4
3 3     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 206
4 4     D 2617 = Münzen und Medaillen 26 (1972), 207 (Figari - Mosconi 625)
5 5     Dattari = DS 2618
6 6     DS 8506 = Naville Numismatics 36, 3 Dec. 2017, lot 423
7 7     Numismatica Ars Classica / Spink Taisei 16. 11. 1994, 844 = Münzen und Medaillen 46 (28. 4. 1972), 207 = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 35 (pl. 12n)
8 8     Peus 420, 1 Nov. 2017, lot 319 = Curtis, JEA 41 (1955), 119-20 (pl. XXIV, 4)
9 9     ✸ Simpson 122 = CNG Triton V, 15 Jan. 2002, lot 1785