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Image of specimen #3 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/158 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.2 |
Number | 158 (temporary) |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Cyzicus |
Region | Troas |
City | Alexandria |
Reign | Commodus |
Person (obv.) | Commodus (Augustus) |
Issue | »Kyzikos«: 1 head and COMMOD AVG |
Dating | c. 180–183 |
Obverse inscription | IMP CAI(sic) M AVR COMMOD AVG |
Edition | Imp(erator) Cai(sar) M(arcus) Aur(elius) Commod(us) Aug(ustus) |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Augustus |
Obverse design | laureate head of Commodus (short - medium length beard), right |
Reverse inscription | COL AVG TROAD |
Edition | col(onia) Aug(usta) Troad(ensium) |
Translation | the Augustan colony of the Troadenses |
Reverse design | nude Apollo standing with foot on omphalos(?), left, leaning forward, resting elbow on knee, holding laurel-branch (over raven standing, left, head, right, with laurel wreath in beak) |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 24 mm |
Average weight | 5.86 g |
Axis | 6 |
Reference | Bellinger A 198 |
Specimens | 6 (2 in the core collections) |