RPC IV.4, 523

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 523
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design judgement of Paris: Aphrodite standing, Hera seated, and Athena standing on rocks; to left, Paris and Hermes standing; before rocks, animals
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.42 g
Axis 1, 12
Specimens 8 (2 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms. SAN 5, 4 (1972–3), 61-2; SAN 6, 3 (1975), 40–2 (Ac Hera seated).
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: 1030/1892 ZfN 21 (1898), 234–5 (pl. VI, 10) = SAN 6, 3 (1975), 40 (illustrated)
2 2     V: GR 24589 JDAI 3 (1888), 293, no. 5 (pl. 9, 23) = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 109 (pl. 22a, e (rev.)) = M. Staal coll.
3 3     A: D 1626 / 2547 / 12063
4 4     Aiello
5 5     CNG 30 (11. 6. 1994), 487
6 6     Münzhandlung Basel 6 (18.3.1936), 661 = SAN 5, 4 (1972–3), 62
7 7     Roma Numismatics EA 43, 3 Feb. 2018, lot 381
8 8     The New York Sale 1 (3.12.1998), 175 (ex Jungfleisch 108)