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| URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3852 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
| Volume | I |
| Number | 3852 |
| Province | Kingdom of Commagene |
| Region | Commagene |
| City | Kingdom of Commagene |
| Reign | Antiochus IV of Commagene |
| Person (obv.) | Antiochus IV of Commagene (king) |
| Issue | I. Bevelled edge |
| Obverse inscription | ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ·ΜΕΓ·ΑΝΤΙΟΧΙΟϹ·ΕΠΙΦΑ |
| Edition | Βασιλεὺς Μέγ(ας) Ἀντίοχος Ἐπιφα(νής) |
| Translation | King Great Antiochus Epiphanes |
| Obverse design | diademed head of Antiochus IV, right |
| Reverse inscription | ΚΟΜΜΑΓΗΝΩΝ |
| Edition | Κομμαγηνῶν |
| Translation | of the Commagenians |
| Reverse design | scorpion; all in wreath (wreath enclosed in lines) |
| Metal | copper-based alloy |
| Average diameter | 28 mm |
| Average weight | 14.44 g |
| Axis | 12 |
| Reference | BMC 6 |
| Specimens | 4 (2 in the core collections) |
| Note | Countermarks: see introduction. 3852-67 For the coinage of Antiochus IV, see Butcher, CRS, pp. 455-9. 3852-65. R. Dillen, Kingdom of Commagene: Punches and Countermarks, in J.-M. Doyen et V. Geneviève (ed.), Hekátê triformis. Mélanges de numismatique et d’archéologie en mémoire de Marc Bar, Travaux du cercle d’Études Numismatiques 17, Bruxelles, 2017, pp. 103-18, lists 13 different countermarks which were applied on diassaria (?) of Antiochus IV and Iotape. Only one assarion (?) of Epiphanes and Callinicus is known with a countermark, whereas about 160 diassaria (?) known to the author were countermarked, a proportion of 30% of the total of known coins. Some of these countermarks are also found on the Antiochene coinage. |
