RPC IV.1, 8710 (temporary)

 

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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 ΑΥΤ Κ ΛΟΥ[ΚΙΟϹ?] ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Λούκιος Κόμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Lucius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟϹΘΕΝΟΥϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Δημοσθένους Βυζαντίων
Translation under Demosthenes, of the Byzantines
Reverse design Corinthian helmet, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 16.04 g
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1442
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

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