RPC IV.1, 8714 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8714 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus) ; Crispina (Augusta)
Magistrate Aelius Pontikos (heros)
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating 178–180
Obverse inscription ΒΡ ΚΡΙϹΠΙΝΑ ϹΕΒ ΑΥΤ Κ Λ ΑΥΡΗ ΚοΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Βρ(ουττία) Κρισπῖνα Σεβ(αστὴ) Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμοδος
Translation Bruttia Crispina Augusta, Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design to left, draped bust of Crispina, right; to right, laureate-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, left
Reverse inscription ΕΠ(Ι) ΑΙ ΠοΝΤΙΚοΥ Η ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Αἰ(λίου) Ποντικού ἥ(ρωος) Βυζαντίων
Translation under Aelius Pontikos, heros, of the Byzantines
Reverse design Artemis advancing, left, holding torch in each hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 14.56 g
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1454–55, BMC 69
Specimens 6 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Florence, Ufficia = Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1454/1, pl. 76 (V83 and R134), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
2 2     Rome
3 3     G: I, 396, no. 24 SNG I, no. 872
4 4     L: BMC 69 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1455/2, pl. 76 (V83 and R135)
5 5     O
6 6     Private coll., USA