RPC IV.1, 4744 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

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)
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΒΙΘΥΝΙΕΩΝ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Reverse design draped bust of Hermes (head assimilated to portrait of Antinoos?), left; to right, caduceus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Axis 6
Reference Rec 26, Cop 340
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)

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