RPC IV.3, 6589 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 6589 (temporary)
Province Arabia
Region Syria
City Pella
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΟΜΟ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κόμο(δος) Ἀντωνῖνο(ς)
Translation Emperor Commodus Antoninus
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription ΠΕΛΛΑΙωΝ ϚΜϹ
Edition Πελλαίων ϛμσʹ
Translation of the Pellans, 246
Reverse design nude Heracles standing, facing, head, left, holding apples of the Hesperides and lion skin, resting left arm on club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 6.01 g
Axis 12
Reference Spijkerman 10
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Private coll. A. Shalit = Spijkerman 10, pl. 46, perhaps with obverse legend variation, ] ΑVΓΟVСΤ[?
2 2     ✸ V: GR 21981 W. Kubitschek, NZ 41 (1909), p. 31, pl. III.3 (rev.) = H. Herzfelder, RN 1936, 289, no. 6, pl. VI.5