RPC IV.4, 632

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 632
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ϛ = 6
Dating AD 142/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥ]Τ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ Ε[ΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ϛ
Reverse design Heracles and the Stymphalian birds: Heracles standing, right, wearing lion skin, quiver at shoulder, shooting upwards with bow and arrow; to right, three birds falling from sky
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1974.26.3677
2 2     ✸ CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 199 ex Porter, Carlson, and Curtis colls. = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 28 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 153 (Staffieri)