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
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
Reverse design Corinthian helmet, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
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