RPC IV, 5996


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/5996 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
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	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
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)

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