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 Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Τί(τος) Αἴ(λιος) Ἀδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐ(σεβής)
Translation Emperor Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΖ
Edition (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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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 222