RPC IV.4, 491

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 491
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 ΕΥ[ϹΕΒ
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 rear
Reverse inscription L Ε
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design Hermanubis standing, facing, head, right, wearing kalathos, holding caduceus and palm-leaf; to left, forepart of jackal
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 22.54 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference DS 8516
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60215
2 2     V: GR 24788
3 3     ✸ CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 181 = CNG EA 445, 5 June 2019, lot 287
4 4     DS 8516 = Naville Numismatics 66, 27 June 2021, lot 217