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Image of specimen #3 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3283 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.2 |
Number | 3283 (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 | 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 ϹΤΡΑ ΠΙΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ |
Edition | ἐπὶ στρα(τηγοῦ) Πίου Κοινὸν Περγαμηνῶν Ἐφεσίων |
Translation | under strategos Pius, of the Koinon of the Pergamenes and Ephesians |
Reverse design | Asclepius seated in biga drawn by two centaurs, left, Asclepius holding statue of Artemis of Ephesus and serpent-staff; one centaur carrying long transverse torch over shoulder |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 41 mm |
Average weight | 35.18 g |
Axis | 6, 12 |
Reference | Weisser 1220a, Franke & Nollé 1563–5, Kampmann 105, no. 28 |
Specimens | 3 (1 in the core collections) |