RPC IV.3, 6539 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 6539 (temporary)
Province Arabia
Region Arabia
City Adraa
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating 177–180
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΛΙ(sic) ΑΥ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Λούκιος Αὐρήλιος Κόμοδος Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Λ{ι}(ούκιος) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Κόμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed (youthful) bust of Commodus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΑΔΡΑΗΝωΝ ΙΕΡΟΜΥ[ ]?ΚΗϹ Ε ΒΟ
Edition Ἀδραηνῶν Ἱερομυ---κης ἔτους βοʹ Ἀδραηνῶν Ἱερομυ[---]κης ἔ(τους) βοʹ
Translation of the Adraeans, Hieromy[---]kes, year 72
Reverse design in centre, Tyche seated on rock(?), left, head, right, holding cornucopia(?); before to right, river-god reclining, left, holding reed(?) and cornucopia(?), resting on water-urn
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 20.43 g
Axis 12
Reference Spijkerman 6
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 66 Spijkerman 6, pl. 10 (on l.), de Saulcy 1
2 2     J-SBF Spijkerman 6, pl. 10, on r. = A. Spijkerman, Liber Annuus 21 (1971), pp. 327–30