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Image of specimen #5 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3771 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.1 |
Number | 3771 (temporary) |
Province | Bithynia-Pontus |
Region | Thrace |
City | Byzantium |
Reign | Marcus Aurelius |
Person (obv.) | Commodus (Augustus) ; Crispina (Augusta) |
Magistrate | Aelius Pontikos (heros) |
Issue | Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors |
Dating | 178–180 |
Obverse inscription | ΒΡ ΚΡΙϹΠΙΝΑ ϹΕΒ ΑΥΤ Κ Λ ΑΥΡΗ ΚοΜΟΔΟϹ |
Edition | Βρ(ουττία) Κρισπῖνα Σεβ(αστὴ) Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμοδος |
Translation | Bruttia Crispina Augusta, Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus |
Obverse design | to left, draped bust of Crispina, right; to right, laureate-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, left |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠ(Ι) (ΑΙ) ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟΥ Η(Ρ) ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ |
Edition | ἐπὶ Αἰ(λίου) Ποντικού ἥρ(ωος) Βυζαντίων |
Translation | under Aelius Pontikos, heros, of the Byzantines |
Reverse design | Corinthian helmet, right |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 29 mm |
Average weight | 16.71 g |
Axis | 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 |
Reference | Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1448–53, BMC 67–8, Cop 510 |
Specimens | 9 (7 in the core collections) |