RPC IV.4, 1587

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1587
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΖ = 17
Dating AD 153/4
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΖ
Reverse design monumental altar or flat-roofed temple with six columns, garlanded, barriers between columns, uncertain figure at each end of base; above, pyre; acroteria in form of aphlasta
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference Geissen 1701
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
Note Portrait intermediate between head and bust or with full bust.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.60756
2 2     Cologne Geissen 1701
3 3     CNG 85, 15 Sept. 2010, lot 723
4 4     ✸ Leu EA 16, 22 May 2021, lot 2370
5 5     Malloy 14 (2.7.1979), 299