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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7858 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IV.1 |
Number | 7858 (temporary) |
Province | Achaea |
Region | Boeotia |
City | Tanagra |
Reign | Commodus |
Person (obv.) | Commodus (Augustus) |
Dating | c. 184–192 |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒΗϹ (facing outward) |
Edition | Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Ἀντωνεῖνος Εὐσεβής |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Antoninus Pius |
Obverse design | laureate head of Commodus, right |
Reverse inscription | ΤΑΝΑΓΡΑΙωΝ |
Edition | Ταναγραίων |
Translation | of the Tanagreans |
Reverse design | shrine with two columns enclosing statue of Dionysus standing, left, holding cantharus and long thyrsus; upper half of each column in form of male figure apparently supporting the roof; in exergue, Triton swimming, left, head, right, extending both arms |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 27 mm |
Average weight | 9.74 g |
Axis | 7, 8, 9 |
Reference | F. Imhoof-Blumer, NZ $(1877), 33, no. 111 corrected in NZ III$, p. 80$ |
Specimens | 4 (3 in the core collections) |