RPC IV.4, 626

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 626
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 ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition 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 Ϛ
Edition (ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation of year 6
Reverse design Heracles and the Erymanthian boar: Heracles (youthful?), lion skin over shoulder, advancing, right, carrying boar over shoulder; to right, Eurystheus in storage jar, raising arm
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 26.54 g
Axis 1
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Note Casts exist.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2405 SNG 2228
2 2     ✸ A: D 1637B / 2567 / 12090
3 3     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 195 = Gorny 29 (28. 6. 1984), 2925
4 4     Naville Numismatics 54, 15 Dec. 2019, lot 259