RPC IV.4, 3539

 

Image of specimen #80

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3539
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΘ = 29
Dating AD 188/9
Obverse inscription Μ Α ΚΟΜ ΑΝΤω ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕΒ
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΘ
Reverse design sailing ship, right; below, waves; behind, Pharos
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 1, 11, 12
Reference D 3903, pl. XXVIII (rev.) (not = DS 3903, DS 3903 (not = D 3903), Geissen 2242, M 2683
Specimens 120 (34 in the core collections)
Note Milne described the diagonal line between the mainsail and the prow as a standard but it is clearly the bowsprit which held the foresail used for manoevering, as on other sailing ships, cf. RPC I, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/21928; RPC IV.4, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25458; and as represented on the sailing ships on the Torlonia relief depicting the harbour at Portus.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: G.2429 BMC 1439, pl. XXIX (rev.)
2 2     L: 1844,0425.2539 BMC 1440
3 3     L: G1956,0409.83 BMC Suppl 3123
4 4     P: AA.GR.5651 (Doubles 552)
5 5     P: 2751
6 6     B: Löbb.
7 7     B: 28629/2
8 8     B: Löbb.
9 9     B: (I-B)
10 10     C
11 11     C: Lewis 2078
12 12     C: 835-1950
13 13     C: 836-1950
14 14     C
15 15     Cop: 581
16 16     G SNG 4318 = MacDonald III, 487, no. 586, pl. LXXXIX, 10 (rev.)
17 17     Mu: 458
18 18     NY: 1944.100.61853
19 19     NY: 1974.26.3914
20 20     NY: 1948.19.1962
21 21     NY: 1974.26.3915
22 22     NY: 1944.100.61855
23 23     NY: 1974.26.3916
24 24     NY: 1944.100.61856
25 25     NY: 1974.26.3917
26 26     NY: 1954.209.1
27 27     NY: 1944.100.61854
28 28     O: HCR27055 M 2683
29 29     O: HCR27056 M 2684
30 30     V: GR 25003
31 31     V: GR 24985
32 32     V: GR 24984
33 33     A: on display, no. 65
34 34     A: on display, no. 64
35 35     A: on display, no. 63
36 36     A-BoG: Petsali
37 37     A-BoG: Petsali 16.3407
38 38     Cologne Geissen 2242
39 39     Cologne Geissen 2243
40 40     Frankfurt Förschner 765
41 41     Frankfurt Förschner 766
42 42     Frankfurt Förschner 767
43 43     Milan SNG 1432
44 44     Milan SNG 1433
45 45     Aiello
46 46     Auktionen Münzhandlung Sonntag 23, 1 June 2016, lot 183
47 47     CNG 103, 14 Sept. 2016, lot 605 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
48 48     CNG 105, 10 May 2017, lot 609 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
49 49     CNG 106, 13 Sept. 2017, lot 626 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
50 50     CNG 112, 11 Sept. 2019, lot 461
51 51     CNG 87, 18 May 2011, lot 910 (ex. coll. Clarence & Helen Zaar) = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 191 (ex. coll. Staffieri) = HA CSNS Signature Sale 3073, 25 Apr. 2019, lot 32186
52 52     CNG EA 211, 3 June 2009, lot 339
53 53     CNG EA 278, 25 Apr. 2012, lot 251
54 54     CNG EA 316, 4 Dec. 2013, lot 340 (ex. coll. Simon Shipp)
55 55     Baldwin, Jul. 1973 =CNG EA 334, 3 Sept. 2014, lot 263
56 56     CNG EA 355, 15 July 2015, lot 397 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
57 57     CNG EA 362, 28 Oct. 2015, lot 347 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
58 58     CNG EA 367, 27 Jan. 2016, lot 418
59 59     CNG EA 377, 29 June 2016, lot 285 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
60 60     CNG EA 389, 18 Jan. 2017, lot 503
61 61     CNG EA 391, 15 Feb. 2017, lot 367 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
62 62     CNG inv. 817022, Sep. 2009 = CNG EA 393, 15 Mar. 2017, lot 216 (ex. coll. Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty)
63 63     CNG EA 403, 9 Aug. 2017, lot 427 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
64 64     CNG EA 407, 11 Oct. 2017, lot 441 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
65 65     CNG EA 413, 31 Jan. 2018, lot 375 (ex. coll. Hermanubis)
66 66     CNG EA 425, 25 July 2018, lot 338 (ex. WRG Collection, purchased from William Porter, March 1990)
67 67     CNG EA 428, 5 Sept. 2018, lot 313 (ex. coll. Jean-Pierre Righetti) = Nomos obolos 23, 12 June 2022, lot 95
68 68     CNG EA 448, 17 July 2019, lot 329 (ex. coll. Rye)
69 69     CNG EA 455, 30 Oct. 2019, lot 241 (ex. coll. J.B, bought in Winter 2006)
70 70     CNG MBS 63, 21 May 2003, lot 1102 = CNG Triton XII, 6 Jan. 2009, lot 649. Ex. Norman Frank Collection
71 71     CNG MBS 69, 8 June 2005, lot 1298 (ex. coll. Garth R. Drewry)
72 72     CNG 41, 19 Mar. 1997, lot 1200 = CNG MBS 75, 23 May 2007, lot 883 (ex. coll. Alexandre de Barros) = CNG 115, 16 Sep. 2020, 513
73 73     CNG MBS 79, 17 Sept. 2008, lot 727
75 75     CNG n° inv. 828301, Dec. 2008 = CNG Triton XX, 10 Jan. 2017, lot 482 (ex. coll. Kallman)
76 76     Dattari = Naville Numismatics 76, 2 Oct. 2022, lot 250
77 77     Dattari = DS 3903 (not = D 3903)
78 78     Elsen 98, 13 Dec. 2008, lot 605
79 79     Emporium Hamburg 87, 12 Nov. 2019, lot 366 = Fritz Rudolf Künker EA 77, 17 Apr. 2023, lot 2260
80 80     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 195, 7 Mar. 2011, lot 346
81 81     Gorny & Mosch EA 259, 20 Oct. 2018, lot 3504 (from the stock of the seller Kress, München, before 1986)
82 82     Heritage Long Beach Signature Sale 3042, 17 Sept. 2015, lot 32194 = Naville Numismatics 38, 11 Mar. 2018, lot 319
83 83     Hirsch 279–80, 8 Feb. 2012, lot 2520
84 84     Hirsch 352, 25 Sept. 2019, lot 2974 (ex. coll. A.W.)
85 85     iNumis MBS 26, 14 Oct. 2014, lot 270
86 86     Jacquier 38, 13 Sept. 2013, lot 251
87 87     Künker 111, 18 Mar. 2006, lot 6838 = Naville Numismatics 57, 26 Apr. 2020, lot 323
88 88     Künker 257, 10 Oct. 2014, lot 9024
89 89     H.G. Oldenburg 22, 1988, lot 64 = Künker 304, 19 Mar. 2018, lot 1214
90 90     Künker 326, 7 Oct. 2019, lot 1475
91 91     Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 261 (Acquired in July 1998 from Günther Schlüter, Berlin; previously acquired in 1969)
92 92     Künker 89, 8 Mar. 2004, lot 1807
93 93     Leu 5, 27 Oct. 2019, lot 295
94 94     NAC 88, 8 Oct. 2015, lot 660
95 95     NAC 92 Part 2, 24 May 2016, lot 2274
96 96     Naville Numismatics 27, 27 Nov. 2016, lot 257
97 97     Naville Numismatics 76, 2 Oct. 2022, lot 250
98 98     Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 938
99 99     Rauch 83, 14 Nov. 2008, lot 286
100 100     Roma Numismatics E-Live 4, 29 Nov. 2018, lot 572
101 101     Roma Numismatics E-Sale 36, 27 May 2017, lot 220
102 102     Sotheby 9.3.1972, coll. Jungfleisch, 137
103 103     CNG Triton XXVII, 9 Jan. 2024, lot 539 (ex. Dr. Thomas E. Beniak Collection, purchased from Victor England, 23 April 1988)
104 104     Naville Numismatics 86, 17 Dec. 2023, lot 349
105 105     Berk Buy or Bid Sale 225, 30 Nov. 2023, lot 521
106 106     Leu WA 16, 22-24 May 2021, lot 2409 (ex. American coll. ; ex. Coll. Rhakotis) = Leu WA 18, 19-21 Dec 2021, lot 2209 = Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2477
107 107     Archaeological Center R. Deutsch 65, 27 Sept. 2018, lot 60 = Goldberg 135, 18 June 2023, lot 1792 (ex. E. Elovic Collection)
108 108     CNG EA 539, 31 May 2023, lot 561
109 109     Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) 264, 15 Nov. 2022, lot 1500
110 110     Leu WA 16, 22 May 2021, lot 2410 (ex. coll. Rhakotis) = CNG EA 502, 20 Oct. 2021, lot 414
111 111     Leu WA 17, 14 Aug. 2021, lot 2112
112 112     Leu WA 15, 27 Feb. 2021, lot 1609
113 113     Naville Numismatics 60, 27 Sept. 2020, lot 180
114 114     Ellen 98, 13 Dec. 2008, lot 605 = CNG 115, 16 Sept. 2020, lot 514 (ex. coll. Stein A. Evensen)
115 115     CNA II, 7 Nov. 1987, lot 253 = CNG 53, 15 Mar. 2000, lot 1224 (ex. coll. Philip DeVicci) = CNG 115, 16 Sept. 2020, lot 515 (ex. Rocky Mountain collection of Alexandrian; ex. coll. George Fischer)
116 116     Davissons, EA 12, 16 Sept. 2015, lot 30
117 117     Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 936
118 118     VAuctions 281, 10 May 2012, lot 239
119 119     CNG 43, 24 Sept. 1997, lot 1181
120 120     P: AA.GR.20862 (Cousinéry)
121 121     P: AA.GR.22617