RPC IV.4, 545

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 545
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
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L Ε
Reverse design draped bust of Sarapis wearing kalathos and taenia (or laurel wreath), right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference DS 8671, Geissen 1411
Specimens 11 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 2–3, 5, 8, 11: same obv. die as 402/2, 411/1, 431/1, 3, 437/1–2, 492/7, 511/1, 530/15.
Note Some Υ forms.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 1095?
2 2     ✸ V: GR 24574
3 3     A: D 1610 / 2520
4 4     Cologne Geissen 1411
5 5     Aiello
6 6     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 180
7 7     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 184
8 8     CNG EA 383, 28 Sept. 2016, lot 436 reportedly ex Col. James W. Curtis Collection (Hans Schulman, 25 Mar. 1962), lot 1844 = Matthijs
9 9     DS 8671 = Private coll. (Figari - Mosconi 691)
10 10     Naville Numismatics 34, 17 Sept. 2017, lot 209 from the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection
11 11     Naville Numismatics 42, 22 July 2018, lot 270