RPC IV.4, 422

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 422
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 ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design sacred boat of Sarapis: Sarapis seated, left, holding sceptre; at his feet, Cerberus; to left, veiled Demeter, wearing kalathos, standing, right, holding long torch and ears of corn(?); to right, Isis-Tyche, wearing basileion, holding rudder and cornucopia; all on oared boat
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 23.14 g
Axis 12
Specimens 4 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 185
2 2     ✸ Dattari = Naville Numismatics 68, 3 Oct. 2021, lot 208
3 3     Malloy 14 (2.7.1979), 282
4 4     Naville Numismatics 29, 26 Feb. 2017, lot 399 = D 8722 (?) = Matthijs