RPC IV.4, 215

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 215
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Δ = 4
Dating AD 140/1
Obverse inscription ] ΑΝ[
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L ΤΕΤΑ[ΡΤΟΥ
Reverse design bust of Ares (or Alexander?), right, wearing cuirass and helmet
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Reference DS 8319?
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Note Jerome Mairat has suggested that this might be a helmeted head of Alexander, as on obverses of coins of the Koinon of Macedonia (e.g. RPC VI, temp. no. 384).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.60980
2 2     DS 8319 = Naville Numismatics 41, 24 June 2018, lot 341 = Matthijs