RPC IV.4, 146

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 146
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Β = 2
Dating AD 138/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ(Ι) ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹ ϹΕΒ
Obverse design bare head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ Β
Reverse design Harpocrates seated on lotus-flower, left, (wearing hem-hem crown or crowned with disk), raising fingers to lips, holding lotus (or flail); (above to left, star)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference D 2571, DS 8458, Geissen 1305
Specimens 15 (5 in the core collections)
Note Casts exist, see SNG France 4, 2881.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1955 SNG 2157, Bakhoum 1999, p. 192, 65 (pl. XVI)
2 2     P: 2251 SNG 2158
3 3     B: Löbb.
4 4     NY: 1944.100.60097
5 5     V: GR 24799
6 6     A: D 1566 / 160/494
7 7     A: 6723
8 8     A: D 1566 / 2458
9 9     Cologne Geissen 1305
10 10     Milan SNG 1221
11 11     Milan SNG 1222
12 12     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 86 = CNG MBS 69, 8 June 2005, lot 1291 = Coin Galleries, 23 Aug. 1989, lot 419
13 13     Dattari = D 2571
14 14     ✸ DS 8458 = Naville Numismatics 20, 7 Feb. 2016, lot 375 = Kunst und Münzen 42 (1980), lot 90 (Figari - Mosconi 607)
15 15     Roma Numismatics EA 66, 9 Jan. 2020, lot 747