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 Βρουττία Κρισπῖνα Σεβαστὴ Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Λούκιος Αὐρήλιος Κόμοδος 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 Αἰλίου Ποντικοῦ ἥρωος Βυζαντίων ἐπὶ Αἰ(λίου) Ποντικοῦ 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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# Specimen 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