RPC IV.4, 519

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 519
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 ΕΥϹΕΒ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right (?)
Reverse inscription [L Ε]
Reverse design judgement of Paris: to left, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite standing; to right, Paris seated, left, offering apple(?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Reference Demetrio 1651 corr.?
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Date not certain.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A Demetrio 1651 corr. = Voegtli, Heldenepen, p. 109 (pl. 22f (rev.)) = JDAI 3 (1888), 293, no. 4 (pl. 9, 22 (rev.)) = D. Tsangari et al., Myth and coinage: representations, symbolisms and interpretations from the Greek mythology, 2011, p. 182, no. 375 (inv. no. 2583), not seen in Athens