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Image of specimen #2 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3276 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.2 |
Number | 3276 (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 Π ΑΙ ΠΙΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΟΜΟ(ΝΟΙΑ) ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ |
Edition | ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Π(όπλιου) Αἰ(λίου) Πίου κοινὸν ὁμόνοια Περγαμηνῶν καὶ Ἐφεσίων |
Translation | under strategos Publius Aelius Pius, league of the Pergamenes and Ephesians |
Reverse design | to left, bearded representative of Pergamum (Pergamos or the Demos) standing, right, holding statue of Asclepius and sceptre; to right, youthful hero of Ephesus (Androklos or Ephesos?) standing, left, holding statue of Artemis and sceptre; (between, altar) |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 42 mm |
Average weight | 40.94 g |
Axis | 6, 7 |
Reference | Weisser 1300, Franke & Nollé 1567–76, Kampmann 105–6, nos 30–32, Martin, Demos 25–6, nos 3a and b, BMC 358 |
Specimens | 13 (5 in the core collections) |