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Image of specimen #1 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/403 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.2 |
Number | 403 (temporary) |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Adramyteum |
Region | Lesbus |
City | Methymna |
Reign | Commodus |
Person (obv.) | Commodus (Augustus) |
Issue | Without personal name but probably part of the issue of Tiberius Claudius —, strategos |
Dating | c. 180–184 |
Obverse inscription | ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ |
Edition | Κόμοδος |
Translation | Commodus |
Obverse design | laureate-headed bust of Commodus (short - medium length beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear |
Reverse inscription | ΜΗΘΥΜΝΑΙΩΝ |
Edition | Μηθυμναίων |
Translation | of the Methymnaeans |
Reverse design | Arion riding on dolphin, right, raising arm, holding lyre |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 19 mm |
Average weight | 4.54 g |
Axis | 6, 12 |
Reference | Franke, Methymna II.15 |
Specimens | 4 (3 in the core collections) |