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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3114 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.2 |
Number | 3114 (temporary) |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Pergamum |
Region | Mysia |
City | Pergamum |
Reign | Commodus |
Person (obv.) | Commodus (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Publius Aelius Pius (strategos) |
Alliance with | Ephesus |
Issue | Issue 2 |
Dating | c. 180–182 |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔοϹ |
Edition | Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) 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 rear |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΠΙΟ[Υ] ΚΟΙ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΚΑ[Ι ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ] |
Edition | ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Πίου κοι(νὸν) Περγαμηνῶν καὶ Ἐφεσίων |
Translation | under strategos Pius, koinon of Pergamenes and Ephesians |
Reverse design | Asclepius seated, left, holding statue of Artemis of Ephesus over erect serpent and long staff |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 31 mm |
Average weight | 13.37 g |
Axis | 6 |
Reference | Weisser 1230, Franke & Nollé 1543–4, Kampmann 103, no. 17, Cop 517 |
Specimens | 2 (2 in the core collections) |