Image of specimen #2 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4.4/1810 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.4 |
Number | 1810 |
Province | Egypt |
Region | Egypt |
City | Alexandria |
Reign | Antoninus Pius |
Person (obv.) | Faustina II (Augusta) |
Issue | Year ΙΘ = 19 |
Dating | AD 155/6 |
Obverse inscription | ΦΑΥϹΤΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ |
Edition | Φαυστῖνα Σεβαστή |
Translation | Faustina Augusta |
Obverse design | draped bust of Faustina II, right |
Reverse inscription | L ΙΘ |
Edition | (ἔτους) ιθʹ |
Translation | of year 19 |
Reverse design | dolphin, downwards |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 19 mm |
Average weight | 3.89 g |
Axis | 12 |
Specimens | 3 (1 in the core collections) |
Die-links | 1–2: same pair of dies. 1–2: same obv. die as 1749/1, 1811/2, 4–9, 2116/1, 2186/1, 3, 2187/1–2, 2230/1, 2231/1–2, 2232/1–3. 1–2: same rev. die as 1747/1, 1749/1, 1808/4, 10. |
Note | The Θ of the date appears to have been recut from an Η. It may have begun life as a Ζ. |