RPC IV.4, 1044

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1044
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΑ = 11
Dating AD 147/8
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L ΕΝ[ΔΕ]ΚΑΤΟ[Υ
Reverse design Ammon (or Sarapis) seated, facing, head, right, crowned with disk, holding long sceptre, on back of ram, walking, right, head, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 1048/8–9, 1057/1–2, 1060/2.
Note A puzzling coin: from the image alone it is not entirely clear whether it is genuine or not. The obverse apparently shares a die with other coins of year 11, unless it has been cast from a genuine coin. Serration is unparalleled at Alexandria, at least in the Antonine period. It looks as though the flan was serrated in the casting process, not after striking. The reverse type of a full figure of Ammon (wearing a disk) on a ram is not otherwise recorded but cf. Sarapis (wearing a kalathos) on a ram in Pius year 2: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/22389 and under Trajan and Hadrian. Conflation / confusion between Ammon and Sarapis is not unusual. With thanks to K. Emmett for advice.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Aiello = Curtis, Survey pl. 43 (rev.)