RPC IV.2, 3291 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3291 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Lucius Verus (uncertain title)
Magistrate Iulius Pollio (strategos for the second time, asiarch, and neokoros)
Dating c. 147–161
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΥΡ ΑΙΛ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Lucius Verus (youthful) wearing paludamentum, right, seen from centre
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Ι ΠΩΛΙ ΤΟ Β ΠΕΡΓΑ
Reverse design Asclepius standing, facing, head, left, holding serpent-staff
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 1, 6, 12
Reference Weisser 1020b corr., BMC 297 corr., Cop 488 corr.
Specimens 20 (13 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cop: 488, under 'Commodus'
2 2     L: BMC 297, under 'Commodus'
3 3     Mu: 184, under 'Commodus'
4 4     Mu: 185, under 'Commodus'
5 5     ✸ B: I-B, under 'Commodus'
6 6     B: 18266041, 1845/5056
7 7     B: 18266042, 1882/317
8 8     P: 1307, under 'Commodus' SNG 2163, obverse as 'Commodus'
9 9     P: 1310, under 'Commodus' SNG 2162 = Weisser 1020, pl. 18, obverse as 'Commodus'
10 10     Private collection H. I.
11 11     P: 207, under 'Commodus' and 'Nicopolis in Epirus' M. Karamesine Oikonomidou, E Nomismatokopoia tes Nikopoleos (Athens 1975) 14, pl. 25
12 12     V-ON Leypold I, no. 420, obverse as 'Commodus'
13 13     G: II, 283, no. 60, under 'Commodus' SNG I, no. 1334, obverse as 'Commodus'
14 14     Private coll. Andreas Reich
15 15     H.D. Rauch Summer 2011 (19/09/2011), 735, obverse as 'Commodus'
16 16     MünzZentrum 59 (29/10/1986), 1075 = Schulten 20 (01/04/1987), 735 = Kölner Münzkabinett 107 (07/10/2017), 22, all under 'Commodus'
17 17     B: 18266036, I-B
18 18     Verona: 75446 SNG 1456, obverse as 'Commodus', worn, perhaps similar type https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/36759
19 19     NY: 1974.226.59
19 19     SNG Arikantürk III, no. 994