RPC IV.1, 8709 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8709 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (uncertain title)
Magistrate Dvine Faustina II (goddess as honorary official)
Dating c. 176–179
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ ΛΟΥΚΙΟϹ ΚοΜοΔοϹ
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ Θ ΦΑΥϹΤΙΝΗϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Reverse design Corinthian helmet, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1441
Specimens 3 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1441/1, pl. 75 (V78 and R122), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
2 2     ✸ P: 405
3 3     Mu: 12a (acc. 19893)