RPC IV.4, 495

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 495
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Reverse design Hermes crowned with lotus petal standing, facing, head, left, holding purse and caduceus; at his feet, dwarf figure, crowned with lotus petals, squatting, holding amphora(?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Axis 11, 12
Reference DS 8525
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Note For a discussion of the type, see Lederer, RSN 30 (1943), 90–3 no. 195 (pl. VII). For Hermes with small - but apparently different - small figure: RPC III, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/13237 (with note: L. Bricault suggested a Paniskos); RPC III, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/13403.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     O: HCR33291 M 1679 corr.
2 2     ✸ A: D 1619FF / 1896/7, I 292/540
3 3     Bern: 83.15 Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums 63–4 (1983–4), 174 no. 9 = RSN 30 (1943), 90–3 no. 105, pl. VII = Sternberg 12 (18. 11. 1982), 614 ex Viragh (Alexandria), ex Voirol (Basel)
4 4     DS 8525 = Naville Numismatics 48, 7 Apr. 2019, lot 265