RPC IV.4, 250

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 250
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Δ = 4
Dating AD 140/1
Obverse inscription ΑΥ]Τ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤω[ΝΙΝΟϹ 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 ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΥ
Edition ἔτους τετάρτου (ἔτους) τετάρτου
Translation of the fourth year
Reverse design Heracles and the Nemean lion: nude Heracles (youthful) standing, right, grasping lion by the jaws and lifting it
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 21.81 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ SAN 4, 4 (1972–3), 63–4 (John Hopkins University) ex Malloy = John Work Garrett Collection (Part III, Numismatic Fine Arts/Bank Leu, 29 Mar. 1985), lot 445 (part of) = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 187 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 150 (Staffieri) = Matthijs
2 2     Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 14 (pl. 12a) corr. = Curtis coll., Curtis, Survey pl. 25