RPC IV.4, 827

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 827
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Η = 8
Dating AD 144/5
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝ(Ε)ΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Η
Edition (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation of year 8
Reverse design zodiac: bust of Sarapis within inner circle of planet-gods (clockwise: Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury) and outer circle of signs of zodiac anticlockwise with Aries at top
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 22.72 g
Axis 6, 11, 12
Reference Geissen 1491 (cast)
Specimens 13 (8 in the core collections)
Note Casts exist: Geissen 1491 cf V: GR 33521, another in Munich; copy of V 24638 in Vienna forgeries. A number of specimens are tooled. Libra appears to be depicted as either a figure with scales or just scales. The latter requires verifcation as only on tooled specimens. Some Υ forms.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: TOW.1603 BMC 1079, pl. XII (rev.)
2 2     P: 2118 SNG 2338
3 3     P: 2117 SNG 2339
4 4     Cop: 457
5 5     G SNG 4180 = MacDonald III, 468, no. 461, pl. LXXXVIII, 8
6 6     NY: 1944.100.68846
7 7     V: GR 24638
8 8     V: GR 33521 Bachofen 1906 Nr. 1329
9 9     A: D 1661 / 2607 JIAN 2 (1899), 84 no. 23, pl. 7, 1 (rev.)
10 10     Cologne Geissen 1491
11 11     ✸ Aiello = Curtis, JEA 41 (1955), 119-20 (pl. XXIV, 7)
12 12     Berk Buy or Bid Sale 213, 19 Nov. 2020, lot 458
13 13     Sotheby 9.3.1972, coll. Jungfleisch, 102