RPC IV, 10978


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10978 json ttl rdf xml
Volume	IV.1
Number	10978 (temporary)
Province	Achaea
Region	Peloponnesus
Subregion	Argolis
City	Troezen
Reign	Commodus
Person (obv.)	Commodus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription	Μ ΑΥΡ Κ[ο]ΜΜοΔοϹ ΑΝ
Obverse design	laureate-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass and paludamentum(?), right
Reverse inscription	ΤΡοΙΖΗΝΙωΝ
Reverse design	uncertain nude male figure standing, left, holding long sceptre(?) and resting left arm on short pillar (shaped as head or perhaps covered in a pelt); to right seated animal (Dionysus and panther?)
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	23 mm
Axis	2, 12
Specimens	3 (2 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	More
1	1 ✸	B: (Fox)		23	8.88	12	Show
2	2	B: (Löbb)		22	7.92	2	Show
3	3		Ex private coll. Boocke (electrotype C Leake 5895, Addenda European Greece, p. 14.7)	23		12	Show