RPC IV.1, 4744 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 4744 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Bithynium Claudiopolis
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Dating c. 184–190
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΚοΜΜοΔοϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝοϹ (Ρ may be reversed)
Edition Α(ὐτοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Κό(μμοδος) Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΒΙΘΥΝΙΕΩΝ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Edition Βιθυνιέων Ἁδριανῶν
Translation of the Bithynian Hadrianians
Reverse design draped bust of Hermes (head assimilated to portrait of Antinoos?), left; to right, caduceus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 8.97 g
Axis 6
Reference Rec 26, Cop 340
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 279 Rec 26, pl. XLII.6
2 2     Cop: 340, both sides with signs of tooling
3 3     Lindgren I, 103A = Peus 366 (25/10/2000), coll. Marcel Burstein, 549, pl. 27 = MünzZentrum 105 (10/01/2001), 394
4 4     Gorny & Mosch 169 (12/10/2008), 185