RPC IV, 5996


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/5996 json ttl rdf xml
Volume	IV.1
Number	5996 (temporary)
Province	Bithynia-Pontus
Region	Bithynia
City	Nicaea
Reign	Commodus
Person (obv.)	Commodus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription	Μ ΑΥ ΚοΜ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝοϹ
Obverse design	bare-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass(?) and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription	ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
Reverse design	Zeus seated, left, holding patera (over eagle) and long sceptre
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	28 mm
Axis	1, 6, 7
Reference	Rec 253 and Rec 251 corr.
Specimens	4 (3 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	More
1	1 ✸	P: 923	Rec 253, pl. LXXIII.17 (rev.)	28	10.63	1	Show
2	2	B: (Löbb)		29	14.76	1	Show
3	3	B: Rauch, reverse without eagle		27	11.59	7	Show
4	4		Private coll. CGT = Asta Numismatica 39 (28/04/2017), 275	29	12.56	6	Show