RPC IV.2, 2018 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 2018 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Cibyra
Region Phrygia
City Hierapolis
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Alliance with Aphrodisias
Dating c. 184–190
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Κόμμοδος Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Κόμμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (long beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from centre
Reverse inscription ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙϹΙΕΩΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ
Edition Ἱεραπολειτῶν Ἀφροδεισιέων ὁμόνοια Ἱεραπολειτῶν Ἀφροδεισιέων ὁμόνοια
Translation concord of the Hierapolitans and the Aphrodisians
Reverse design to left, Apollo standing, right, holding plectrum and lyre; to right, cult statue of Aphrodite of Aphrodisias standing, left, wearing kalathos; (between, altar?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Average weight 25.21 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference Franke & Nollé 641-5, MacDonald, homonoia type D, L. Weber, JIAN 14 (1912), 94, M, BMC 166
Specimens 5 (4 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 166, pl. LI.10 (rev.)
2 2     P: 1325
3 3     ✸ P: 276, ex P 139A, under 'Aphrodisias' L. Weber, JIAN 14 (1912), 94, M, pl. IA'.18 (rev.) = MacDonald, homonoia type D, pl. XXXII (O305, R596)
4 4     NY: 1944.100.50453 Franke & Nollé 641, pl. 31
5 5     Boston: 61.1058 C.C. Vermeule, Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor (Cambridge [MA], 1968), pp. 160–1 = Franke & Nollé 644, pl. 31 (rev.)