RPC IV.4, 402

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 402
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
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 head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design laureate-headed and draped archaizing bust of Apollo, right; to right, laurel-branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 22.52 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2550, pl. XIII (rev.)
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 2: same obv. die as 411/1, 431/1, 3, 437/1–2, 492/7, 511/1, 530/15, 545/2–3, 5, 8, 11.
Note Identified by Dattari as Euthenia. Presumably Apollo, cf. Delphi: RPC online IV.1, temp. no. 5055. Long ringlets also for Apollo Didymeus cf. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/23044.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60191
2 2     ✸ CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 186 = CNG EA 287, 26 Sept. 2012, lot 367 = CNG EA 113, 11 May 2005, lot 161 = Matthijs
3 3     AB, ex Den of Antiquity