RPC IV.4, 483

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 483
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-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from front or rear
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design Heracles (youthful), wearing wreath, standing, left, holding Nike with palm and wreath, and club, lion skin over arm
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 23.86 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2585–6, DS 8478 (?), DS Suppl pl 16, 57
Specimens 7 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2036 SNG 2226
2 2     A: D 1623C / 2543 / 12372
3 3     ✸ Aiello
4 4     CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 93 = Staffieri
5 5     D 2585 = Naville Numismatics 70, 12 Dec. 2021, lot 278
6 6     D 2586 = Naville Numismatics 50, 23 June 2019, lot 279
7 7     DS 8478 = Naville Numismatics 40, 27 May 2018, lot 396 = Matthijs