RPC IV.4, 146

 

Image of specimen #14

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 146
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Β = 2
Dating AD 138/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ(Ι) ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρι(ανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσ(εβὴς) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius Augustus
Obverse design bare head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ Β
Edition ἔτους βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design Harpocrates seated on lotus-flower, left, (wearing hem-hem crown or crowned with disk), raising fingers to lips, holding lotus (or flail); (above to left, star)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 8.68 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference D 2571, DS 8458, Geissen 1305
Specimens 15 (5 in the core collections)
Note Casts exist, see SNG France 4, 2881.

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