RPC IV.2, 3256 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3256 (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 to left, nude Heracles standing, right, leaning against tree, resting arm on club covered with lion skin; to right in background, deer standing, right, head, left, feeding Telephos; above on rock, eagle standing, left, spreading wings
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 45 mm
Average weight 42.44 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Weisser 1190
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 1918/1653, Pergamum Finds Weisser 1190, pl. 20
2 2     Gorny 67 (02/05/1994), 562
3 3     ✸ Private collection H. I.