RPC IV.4, 1729

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1729
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΗ = 18
Dating AD 154/5
Obverse inscription Α(Υ)Τ Κ Τ Α(ΙΛ) (Α)ΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥ(Ϲ)
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΗ
Edition ἔτους ιηʹ (ἔτους) ιηʹ
Translation of year 18
Reverse design Tyche-Euthenia standing, facing, head, left, holding ears of corn and rudder; to left, forepart of sailing ship; below which, Thalassa (the Sea) reclining; to right, stern of ship, below which, Nilus reclining, crowned with lotus, holding rudder
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 22.31 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 2899, DS 8771–2, DS Suppl pl 19, 143, Geissen 1749, M 2288
Specimens 51 (25 in the core collections)
Note Casts exist, see SNG France 4,  2903–4; Jacquier 38, 13 Sep. 2013, lot 244. See the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/23962.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1845,1217.122 BMC 1173, pl. XXIV (rev.)
2 2     L: 1864,1118.480 BMC 1174
3 3     P: 2327 SNG 2650
4 4     P: 2328 SNG 2651
5 5     B: 96/1892
6 6     B: Löbb.
7 7     B: no number
8 8     G SNG 4232 = MacDonald III, 473, no. 490
9 9     NY: 0000.999.25317
10 10     NY: 1944.100.60804
11 11     NY: 1974.26.3731
12 12     NY: 1944.100.60806
13 13     NY: 0000.999.25315
14 14     NY: 1944.100.60805
15 15     NY: 0000.999.25319
16 16     NY: 0000.999.25316
17 17     NY: 0000.999.25318
18 18     NY: 1944.100.60807
19 19     O: HCR33563
20 20     O: HCR33559 M 2288
21 21     O: HCR33560 M 2289
22 22     O: HCR33561 M 2290
23 23     V: GR 24745
24 24     V: GR 24743
25 25     V: GR 24744
26 26     A: D 1862A / 1896/7, I 372/686
27 27     A: D 1956G / 224/766
28 28     A: D 1863A / 2889 / 12286
29 29     Bern: 83.18 Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums 63–4 (1983–4), 177 no. 20
30 30     Cologne Geissen 1749
31 31     Frankfurt Förschner 666
32 32     Leeds-UL: 489
33 33     Aiello
34 34     CNG EA 278, 25 Apr. 2012, lot 246
35 35     CNG EA 291, 21 Nov. 2012, lot 301
36 36     CNG EA 407, 11 Oct. 2017, lot 430
37 37     DS 2899 = Kölner Münzkabinett 59 (1993), 311 (Figari - Mosconi 720)
38 38     DS Suppl pl 19, 143 = Naville Numismatics 76, 2 Oct. 2022, lot 238
39 39     ✸ Elsen 134, 9 Sept. 2017, lot 516 = Nomos 24, 22 May 2022, lot 350
40 40     Gorny & Mosch 208, 16 Oct. 2012, lot 1891
41 41     Kölner Münzkabinett 108, 7 Apr. 2018, lot 239
42 42     Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 223
43 43     Lanz 138, 26 Nov. 2007, lot 689
44 44     Matthijs
45 45     MünzZentrum 52 (12.11.1984), 812
46 46     Naumann 68, 5 Aug. 2018, lot 341
47 47     Numismatic Fine Arts Mail Bid Sale 12. 10. 1988, coll. Brauer, 885
48 48     Peus 318 (7–8. 5.1987), 1569
49 49     Savoca EA 32 Silver, 14 Apr. 2019, lot 290
50 50     Stack's 10. 6. 1970, coll. Knobloch, 571
51 51     UBS 83, 8 Sept. 2009, lot 251