RPC IV.3, 17450 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 17450 (temporary)
Province Cappadocia
Region Pontus
City Amasea
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year 190 (AD 187/188)
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Κόμοδος Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Commodus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΑΔΡ ΑΜΑϹΙ ΜΗΤΡ ΝΕΩΚ ΠΡ Τ Π ΕΤ ΡϘ
Edition Ἁδρ(ιανῆ) Ἀμάσι(α) μητρ(όπολις) νεωκ(όρος) πρ(ώτη) τ(οῦ) Π(όντου) ἔτ(ους) ρϙʹ
Translation Hadrianic Amasea, metropolis, neocorate, first city of Pontus, year 190
Reverse design Tyche standing, left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 21.65 g
Axis 6
Reference Dalaison, Amaseia 185
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Peus 360 (27/04/1999), 605, pl. 23
1 1     ✸ R. Effler coll. (ex Hirsch 159, Sept. 1988, lot 808; Münz Zentrum 66, Apr. 1989, lot 331; Savoca 125th Blue, 29 Jan. 2022, lot 497) = Dalaison, Amaseia 185b
2 2     Wendt-Numismatica 17, Hollschek coll., 22 June 1977, lot 209, pl. 8, under 'Adramyteum'