RPC IV.4, 621

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 621
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 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] Ϛ
Edition ἔτους ϛʹ (ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation of year 6
Reverse design Heracles and Pholus: to left, forepart of centaur leaning on staff; to right, Heracles seated on lion skin on rocks, right, head, left, reaching out to centaur, holding lyre; against rocks, club; left field framed by vine; to right, attendant and crater
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 25.95 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 8507
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 2: same rev. die as 620/1–7.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.60274
2 2     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 215 = Peus 384, 2 Nov. 2005, lot 913 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 160 (Staffieri)