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 Memmi[os] Markos Heros (second archon)
Dating 175-177
Obverse inscription Λ ΑVΡΗΛΙοϹ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ Κ
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, r.
Reverse inscription ƐΠΙ Μ ΜΑΡΚοV Η(Ρ) Το Β ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Reverse design Corinthian helmet, r.
Metal Æ
Average diameter 28 mm
Axis 6, 7
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1433–7, Cop 509
Specimens 7 (5 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number 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