RPC IV.1, 5996 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
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
Edition Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Κόμμοδος Ἀντωνῖνος Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Κόμ(μοδος) Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass(?) and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
Edition Νικαιέων Νικαιέων
Translation of the Nicaeans
Reverse design Zeus seated, left, holding patera (over eagle) and long sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 12.39 g
Axis 1, 6, 7
Reference Rec 253 and Rec 251 corr.
Specimens 4 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 923 Rec 253, pl. LXXIII.17 (rev.)
2 2     B: (Löbb)
3 3     B: Rauch, reverse without eagle
4 4     Private coll. CGT = Asta Numismatica 39 (28/04/2017), 275