RPC IV.1, 3771 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3771 (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(Ρ) ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Αἰ(λίου) Ποντικού ἥρ(ωος) Βυζαντίων
Translation under Aelius Pontikos, heros, of the Byzantines
Reverse design Corinthian helmet, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 16.71 g
Axis 1, 2, 6, 7, 8
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1448–53, BMC 67–8, Cop 510
Specimens 9 (7 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: (Fox) Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1448, pl. 76 (V83 and R128) = Cat. 151, no. 80, pl. V.47
2 2     P: 407 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1449/1, pl. 76 (V83 and R129), reverse legend with Κ(sic) ΑΙ ΠοΝΤΙΚοV ...
3 3     V: GR 8502, reverse legend with Κ(sic) ΑΙ ΠοΝΤΙΚοV ...
4 4     Cop: 510 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1450, pl. 76 (V83 and R130)
5 5     ✸ L: BMC 67 (drawing) Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1451/1, pl. 76 (V83 and R131), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
6 6     Warsaw: 55807
7 7     V: GR 32316 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1452, pl. 76 (V83 and R132), pierced, 18.91g
8 8     L: BMC 68 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1453, pl. 76 (V83 and R133)
9 9     Yale: ex PRF