RPC IV.4, 1516

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1516
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΖ = 17
Dating AD 153/4
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΤΙ ΑΙ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Τί(τος) Αἴ(λιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐ(σεβής)
Translation Emperor Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΖ
Edition ἔτους ιζʹ (ἔτους) ιζʹ
Translation of year 17
Reverse design draped bust of Ammon, right, crowned with disk
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 23.41 g
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 1521/1, 1525/2, 1528/1, 1561/1–6, 1574/1.
Note On this die the inscription appears to begin ΑVΤΙΑΙΑΔΡ. This is clearly based on, and probably intended to be, the more usual ΑVΤΚΑΙΑΔΡ, but with the diagonals of the Κ missing or at any rate not visible.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 222