RPC IV.4, 239

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 239
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 ΕΥϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβ(ής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L Δ
Edition ἔτους δʹ (ἔτους) δʹ
Translation of year 4
Reverse design draped female bust, right, wearing diadem, (loop of drapery over shoulder?); (before, serpent(?))
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 25.62 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 8849–50
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Note As  Melanie Lang notes, the version without the loop of drapery must represent Aphrodite, as the iconography matches that of Venus in the zodiac series.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 2387 SNG 2194
2 2     DS 8849 = Naville Numismatics 40, 27 May 2018, lot 392 = Matthijs
3 3     DS 8850 = Wishnevsky coll. = Kölner Münzkabinett 122, 2024, lot 387