RPC IV.4, 571

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 571
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus) ; Faustina I (Diva)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ [ΕΥ]ϹΕΒ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Reverse design emperor (Antoninus Pius), bare-headed, wearing toga, holding scroll, standing, right, clasping hands with Faustina I, veiled, standing, left, holding long sceptre; between, thymiaterion
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Axis 11, 12
Reference DS 8302, Geissen 1399
Specimens 8 (4 in the core collections)
Note For the sroll compare RIC III, 381; Beckmann 2012, p. 36, fig. 2.17. The type evoked, but did not precisely copy, what appears to be a statue group on roughly contemporary sestertii from Rome (Beckmann 2012, pp. 35–7; 79; RIC III, 601; 1129).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2025 SNG 2025
2 2     ✸ B: 18221413, 1906 Löbbecke
3 3     NY: 1944.100.60190
4 4     NY: 1944.100.60189
5 5     A: 2554 / 11962
6 6     Cologne Geissen 1399
7 7     DS 8302 = Naville Numismatics 36, 3 Dec. 2017, lot 418
8 8     Matthijs