RPC IV.4, 620

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 620
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ϛ = 6
Dating AD 142/3
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 Ϛ
Edition ἔτους ϛʹ (ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation of year 6
Reverse design Heracles and Pholus: to left, forepart of centaur leaning on staff(?); to right, Heracles seated on lion skin on rocks, right, head, left, reaching out to centaur, holding lyre; against rocks, club; left field framed by vine; to right, attendant and crater
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.61 g
Axis 12
Reference Geissen 1428
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–7: same rev. die as 621/2.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1862,0614.256 BMC 1057 corr., pl. VI (rev.) = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 81 (pls. 18f, g (rev.))
2 2     P: 2062 (Wiczay 861) SNG 2272
3 3     A: D 1637 / 2565 / 11972
4 4     Bern: 80.561 Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums 63–4 (1983–4), 175 no. 14 = Hess 247 (29. 6. 1978), 337 corr.
5 5     Cologne Geissen 1428
6 6     Frankfurt Förschner 578 corr.
7 7     Aiello