RPC IV.2, 11429 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 11429 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Lydia
City Hyrcanis
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Lucius Vettius Antoninus (strategos)
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Κόμοδος Αὐτο(κράτωρ) 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 front
Reverse inscription [ϹΤΡΑ Λ?] ΟΥΕΤ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΥ ΥΡΚΑΝΩΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝ
Edition στρατηγοῦ Λουκίου Οὐεττίου Ἀντωνείνου Ὑρκανῶν Μακεδόνων στρα(τηγοῦ) Λ(ουκίου) Οὐετ(τίου) Ἀντωνείνου Ὑρκανῶν Μακεδόν(ων)
Translation of the strategos Lucius Vettius Antoninus, of the Macedonian Hyrcanians
Reverse design Dionysus reclining, left, head, right, in cart drawn by two panthers, right; Dionysus holding cantharus(?) and thyrsus; panther in foreground pantheress
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 39 mm
Average weight 26.20 g
Axis 5
Reference Hochard 1001
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Tübingen: coll. Hommel SNG 3694 = GRPCL Hyrcanis 48 = Hochard 1001a, pl. 51