RPC IV.4, 464

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 464
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 Heracles and the apples of the Hesperides: Heracles wearing lion skin, club over shoulder, advancing, right, picking apple from tree, around which is entwined a serpent with arrow through neck
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 23.86 g
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60996 Münzhandlung Basel 6 (18.3.1936), 660 (rev.)
2 2     A: D 1956B / 2697 / 12435
3 3     ✸ SAN 4, 4 (1972–3), 63–6 (John Hopkins University) ex Lockett = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 209