RPC IV.1, 10189 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 10189 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Divine Faustina II (goddess as honorary official)
Dating c. 176–179
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Λ[ο]ΥΚΙοϹ ΚοΜοΔοϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Λούκιος Κόμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Lucius Commodus
Obverse design bare head of Commodus (youthful) with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ Θ ΦΑΥϹΤΙΝΗϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Θ(εᾶς) Φαυστίνης Βυζαντίων
Translation under the goddess Faustina, of the Byzantines
Reverse design Artemis advancing, left, holding torch in each hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Average weight 16.80 g
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A-KIKPE E.J. Waddell 1 (09/12/1982), 30 = CNG EA 321, 26 Feb. 2014, lot 289 = SNG Kikpe II, 241