RPC IV.2, 11335 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 11335 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Publius Aelius Pius (strategos)
Alliance with Ephesus
Issue Issue 2
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (short beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Π ΑΙ ΠΙΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΦΕϹΙ
Edition ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Π(ουπλίου) Αἰ(λίου) Πίου κοινὸν ὁμόνοια Περγαμηνῶν καὶ Ἐφεσί(ων)
Translation under strategos Publius Aelius Pius, koinon, concord of the Pergamenes and Ephesians
Reverse design to left, Asclepius standing, right, holding serpent-staff; at his feet, omphalos; to right, cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus standing, facing, wearing kalathos, having supports; between, small Nike flying, facing, crowning the two deities
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 41 mm
Average weight 32.44 g
Axis 6
Reference Weisser 1280a, Franke & Nollé 1552, Kampmann 104, no. 23
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
3 3     ✸ Boston: 62.437 C.C. Vermeule, Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor (Cambridge [MA], 1968), p. 149, fig. 78 = Franke & Nollé 1552, pl. 73 (rev.) = Kampmann 104, no. 23.1, pl. 2 (R23)