RPC IV.2, 70 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 70 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Cyzicus
Region Troas
City Assus
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Tiberius Claudius Aristoladas (strategos)
Dating c. 184–187
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙ ΑΥ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Αὐρήλιος Κόμοδος Αὐτο(κράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Κόμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (long beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΑΡΙϹΤοΛΑΔ ΑϹϹΙΩΝ
Reverse design Asclepius seated, left, holding patera and long serpent-staff
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 6.75 g
Axis 6
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 536 Wa 665, misreading name of 'magistrate' as 'Α.ΙСΤΟ.ΑƐ(?)'
3 3     Private coll. Luckenbach, Annapolis, Maryland
4 4     Boston: 84.726 H.W. Bell, Investigations at Assos. Coins (Boston [Massachusetts], 1921), 305, no. 151, pl. 295.151 = Kraft, p. 188, pl. 89.21.b, both tentatively restoring the name of the 'magistrate' as 'ΑΡΙϹΤΟΛΑΟ?'