RPC IV, 403


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/403 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	IV.2
Number	403 (temporary)
Province	Asia
Subprovince	Conventus of Adramyteum
Region	Lesbus
City	Methymna
Reign	Commodus
Person (obv.)	Commodus (Augustus)
Issue	Without personal name but probably part of the issue of Tiberius Claudius —, strategos
Dating	c. 180–184
Obverse inscription	ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition	Κόμοδος
Translation	Commodus
Obverse design	laureate-headed bust of Commodus (short - medium length beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription	ΜΗΘΥΜΝΑΙΩΝ
Edition	Μηθυμναίων
Translation	of the Methymnaeans
Reverse design	Arion riding on dolphin, right, raising arm, holding lyre
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	19 mm
Average weight	4.54 g
Axis	6, 12
Reference	Franke, Methymna II.15
Specimens	4 (3 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	More
1	1 ✸	B: 1895/714	Franke, Methymna II.15, pl. 13.52	18	4.32	12	Show
2	2	G: II, 315, no. 8	SNG I, no. 1311	19	5.04	6	Show
3	3	V: GR 16918	F. Bürchner, ZfN 9 (1882), p. 112	18	4.25	12	Show
4	4	Basel	Schefold, Bildnisse, pp. 172–3, no. 5 (rev.) and p. 219	20			Show