RPC IV.3, 7271 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 7271 (temporary)
Province Galatia
Region Galatia
City Germa
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue later Commodus
Dating AD 184–190
Obverse inscription IMP M AVR COM ANTONINVS
Edition Imp(erator) M(arcus) Aur(elius) Com(modus) Antoninus
Translation Emperor Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass, right
Reverse inscription COL AVG GERMENOR
Edition col(onia) Aug(usta) Germaeno(rum)
Translation Augustan Colony of the Germenses
Reverse design Jupiter/Zeus seated, right, holding long sceptre and two ears of corn
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 17.88 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference vA Germa 4
Specimens 6 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Private coll., Switzerland = MMAG 41 (18/06/1970), 589, pl. 36 = vA Germa 4
2 2     ✸ Numismatik Naumann 66 (03/06/2018), 312
3 3     Ex private coll. Botharin, cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin, under 'Commodus' and 'Alexandria Troas'
4 4     Boston: 1972.862
5 5     CNG EA 507, 5 Jan. 2022, lot 282 = CNG EA 348, 8 Apr. 2015, lot 525 = CNG EA 181, 6 Feb. 2008, lot 212
6 6     Demos 4, 26 Sept. 2021, lot 417