RPC IV.2, 3255 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3255 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Aelius Glykonianos (strategos)
Issue Issue 1
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτο(κράτωρ) 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 front
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΑΙ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΙΑΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Μ(άρκου) Αἰ(λίου) Γλυκωνιανοῦ Περγαμηνῶν βʹ νεοκόρων
Translation under the strategos Marcus Aelius Glykonianos, of the Pergamenes, twice neocorate
Reverse design emperor standing on base, facing, head, left, wearing military dress, holding spear, erecting trophy to left, in front of which bound captive is seated, left; in fore-ground, male figure about to slaughter sacrificial hump-backed bull with double axe
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 43 mm
Average weight 42.10 g
Axis 1, 6, 12
Reference Weisser 1200
Specimens 8 (5 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ V: GR 16461 (Medaillon) von Fritze, Pergamon, pp. 72–3, pl. VII.16 (rev.) = Harl, p. 249, pl. 24.4 = Weisser 1200, pl. 20
2 2     Münster: M 1028
3 3     NY: 1991.15.1 Gorny 50 (24/09/1990), 328 = C. Arnold-Biucchi, Annual Report of the American Numismatic Society 1991, p. 12, pl. 12, slightly tooled
5 5     P: 1333 SNG 2166
6 6     NY: 1955.142.6
7 7     B Gorny & Mosch 114 (04/03/2002), 172
8 8     V-ON Leypold I, no. 423
9 9     H.-W. Müller [Solingen] 42 (24/06/1983), 363 = Kölner Münzkabinett 107 (07/10/2017), 23