RPC IV.4, 3338

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3338
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΖ = 17
Dating AD 177
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙϹ Λ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκ(ράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρήλιος Κόμμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΙΖ
Edition (ἔτους) ιζʹ
Translation of year 17
Reverse design griffin seated, left, paw on wheel
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 8.29 g
Axis 12
Reference D 3833, DS 9539
Specimens 8 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 5: same obv. die as 3340/1–2. 3–7: same rev. die as 3351/1–2.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     C
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61894
3 3     O: HCR34421
4 4     Aiello
5 5     ✸ CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 131 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 186 (Staffieri) = John Work Garrett Collection (Part III, Numismatic Fine Arts/Bank Leu, 29 Mar. 1985), lot 4840 (part of) = CNG EA 431, 24 Oct. 2018, lot 328
6 6     CNG EA 243, 27 Oct. 2010, lot 293
7 7     D 3833 = Naville Numismatics 29, 26 Feb. 2017, lot 425
8 8     DS 9539 = Bayerische Vereisnbank 1 (1978), 276 (Figari - Mosconi 930)