RPC IV.4, 545

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 545
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 ΕΥϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβ(ής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design draped bust of Sarapis wearing kalathos and taenia (or laurel wreath), right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.50 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference DS 8671, Geissen 1411
Specimens 11 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 2–3, 5, 8, 11: same obv. die as 402/2, 411/1, 431/1, 3, 437/1–2, 492/7, 511/1, 530/15.
Note Some Υ forms.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 1095?
2 2     ✸ V: GR 24574
3 3     A: D 1610 / 2520
4 4     Cologne Geissen 1411
5 5     Aiello
6 6     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 180
7 7     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 184
8 8     CNG EA 383, 28 Sept. 2016, lot 436 reportedly ex Col. James W. Curtis Collection (Hans Schulman, 25 Mar. 1962), lot 1844 = Matthijs
9 9     DS 8671 = Private coll. (Figari - Mosconi 691)
10 10     Naville Numismatics 34, 17 Sept. 2017, lot 209 from the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection
11 11     Naville Numismatics 42, 22 July 2018, lot 270