RPC IV.4, 986

 

Image of specimen #10

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 986
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ι = 10
Dating AD 146/7
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription L ΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
Reverse design Heracles and the Erymanthian boar: Heracles (youthful), wearing lion skin and quiver, advancing, right, carrying boar over shoulder; to left, club; to right, Eurystheus hiding in storage jar, raising arms
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference DS 8484–5, M 1911
Specimens 12 (4 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1862,0614.241 BMC 1046, pl. VI (rev)
2 2     B: 28884
3 3     NY: 1944.100.61028
4 4     O: HCR33394 M 1911
5 5     A: D 1714 / 2692 / 12441
6 6     A: D 1718C / 2703 / 12429
7 7     Yale: (Peerless)
8 8     Aiello
9 9     CNG EA 328, 11 June 2014, lot 396
10 10     ✸ DS 8484 = Triton 5 (15. 1. 2002), 1783 = Triton 11 (8–9. 1. 2008), 536 = Simpson 128 = NumCirc 91, 3 (April 1983), 1793 (Figari - Mosconi 614)
11 11     SAN 4, 4 (1972–3), 63–6 (John Hopkins University) ex Malloy = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 196
12 12     The New York Sale 1 (3.12.1998), 177 (ex Jungfleisch 104)