RPC IV.4, 252

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 252
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Δ = 4
Dating AD 140/1
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΥ
Reverse design Heracles and the Nemean lion: nude Heracles (youthful) standing, right, grasping lion by the jaws and lifting it out of cave; (behind, club)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note Some V forms on obverse.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: 28798
2 2     Bern: 80.565 Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums 63–4 (1983–4), 174 no. 8 = Hess 251 (7. 5. 1981), 160