RPC IV.3, 6880 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 6880 (temporary)
Province Cappadocia
Region Cappadocia
City Caesarea
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription Μ ΚΟΜΟ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟ(Ϲ)
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙ(ΑϹ) ΕΤ ΙΑ (date on altar)
Reverse design altar surmounted by sacred image of Mount Argaeus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 1, 6, 12
Reference S 374, BMC 212
Specimens 19 (13 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 212
2 2     ✸ P: 490
3 3     P: 492 Wa 6773, obverse as 'Marcus Aurelius'
4 4     P: 456, under 'Marcus Aurelius', obverse legend variation: ] ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟС, on reverse, date not entirely certain
5 5     C: Leake 1409, Asiatic Greece, p. 38.13
6 6     V: GR 32445, reverse perhaps with star?
7 7     B: (Fox)
8 8     B: Rauch
9 9     B: Löbb, on obverse ω shaped as Ʊ
10 10     B: 1914/157
11 11     NY: 1944.100.62562, under Cappadocia Mt. Argaeus
12 12     Lanz 92 (04/06/1999), 724, pl. 30
13 13     G: II, 590, no. 64 SNG I, no. 2247
14 14     G: II, 590, no. 65 SNG I, no. 2248, double struck
15 15     Münster: M 1374
16 16     Boston: 66.58
17 17     Henseler 640 = Ganschow 308b = Lagerkatalog Künker 107, 1994, lot 75
18 18     Henseler 641 = Ganschow 308d = Müller 135, 2007, lot 1021
19 19     Henseler 642 =