RPC IV.1, 8710 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8710 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Demosthenes
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating 177–180
Obverse inscription ΑVΤ Κ ΛΟV[ΚΙΟϹ?] ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, r.
Reverse inscription ƐΠΙ ΔΗΜΟϹΘƐΝΟVϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Reverse design Corinthian helmet, r.
Metal Æ
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1442
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 403, cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin