RPC IV.4, 453

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 453
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
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design Heracles and Antaeus: Heracles standing, right, head, left, lifting Antaeus; to left, club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 25.18 g
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3: same rev. die.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ G SNG 4163 = MacDonald III, 466, no. 452
2 2     NY: 1944.100.60997
3 3     SAN 4, 4 (1972–3), 63–6 (John Hopkins University) ex Malloy = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 214