RPC IV.1, 8707 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8707 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Caesar)
Magistrate Memmios Marcus (heros for the second time)
Dating 175–177
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΥΡΗΛΙοϹ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ Κ
Edition Λούκιος Αὐρήλιος Κόμοδος Καῖσαρ Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρήλιος Κόμοδος Κ(αῖσαρ)
Translation Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ Μ ΜΑΡΚοΥ Η(Ρ) Το Β ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Μεμμίου Μάρκου ἥρωος τὸ βʹ Βυζαντίων ἐπὶ Μ(εμμίου) Μάρκου ἥρ(ωος) τὸ βʹ Βυζαντίων
Translation under Memmios Markos, hero, for the second time, of the Byzantines
Reverse design Corinthian helmet, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 14.93 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1433–7, Cop 509
Specimens 7 (5 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: (Löbb) Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1433, pl. 75 (V74 and R114)
2 2     Cop: 509
3 3     O
4 4     V: GR 8484 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1435/2, pl. 75 (V74 and R116)
5 5     V: GR 8500
6 6     Sofia
7 7     Bern: Righetti 261