RPC IV.1, 5641 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 5641 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Nicomedia
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΜοΔοϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝοϹ
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 (lightly bearded) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΝΙΚοΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚοΡΩΝ
Edition Νικομηδέων δὶς νεωκόρων
Translation of the Nicomedians, twice neocorate
Reverse design galley with six rowers, left; on stern, two standards; in background, two temples with eight columns each
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 24.62 g
Axis 1, 6, 7
Reference Rec 165, BMC 34
Specimens 8 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 34 Rec 165(1), pl. XCII.37
2 2     B: I-B
3 3     Turin
4 4     Lanz 92 (04/06/1999), 715, pl. 29
8 8     CNG 88, 14 Sept. 2011, lot 856
9 9     Roma Numismatics EA 8, 31 May 2014, lot 410
11 11     Leu WA 9, 7 Sept. 2019, lot 673 (ex Naumann 49, 8 Jan. 2017, lot 378)
12 12     ✸ Editions V. Gadoury 2019, 15 Nov. 2019, lot 448 (ex Santamaria, Signorelli coll., 13 March 1953, lot 611; NAC 52, 7 Oct. 2009, lot 486; Editions V. Gadoury 2012, 1 Dec. 2012, lot 281)