RPC IV.4, 2000

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 2000
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΑ = 21
Dating AD 157/8
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ (ΚΑΙ) (Τ) ΑΙ(Λ) ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ (ΕΥϹ)
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΑ
Reverse design Roma (or Ares) seated on cuirass, left, holding Nike and parazonium
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 12
Reference DS 8325, Geissen 1801
Specimens 8 (4 in the core collections)
Die-links 2: same obv. die as 1979/1, 1989/2. 3: same obv. die as 1971/8, 1982/3, 13, 1989/6.
Note The figure is conventionally described as Ares but a similar figure is identified as Roma by inscriptions on some issues of AD 161. Ares (or Mars) is not normally shown as seated on Roman Provincial or Imperial coins. Compare https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/24522, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/24515, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/24546.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cop: 523 (rev.)
2 2     ✸ NY: 1944.100.60863
3 3     O: HCR33590
4 4     V: GR 24767
5 5     A: D 1908 / 2949 / 12174
6 6     Cologne Geissen 1801
7 7     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 240
8 8     DS 8325 = Münzen Auktion Essen 71 (1996), lot 482 (Figari - Mosconi 576)