RPC IV.2, 3113 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3113 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Aelius Glykonianos (strategos)
Issue Issue 1
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Κόμοδος Αὐτο(κράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (short beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΙΑΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕοΚοΡΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρατηγοῦ Γλυκωνιανοῦ Περγαμηνῶν βʹ νεωκόρων ἐπὶ στ(ρατηγοῦ) Γλυκωνιανοῦ Περγαμηνῶν βʹ νεωκόρων
Translation under strategos Glykonianos of the Pergamenes, twice neocorate
Reverse design Cybele seated in biga drawn by lions, left, holding tympanum; behind, Corybant walking, left, playing tympanum
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 20.52 g
Axis 7, 12
Reference Weisser 1440
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 1318 SNG 2170 = von Fritze, Pergamon, p. 65, pl. V.20 (rev.) = Kraft, p. 188, pl. 88.15b = Weisser 1440, pl. 20
2 2     CNG 22 (02/09/1992), 581
3 3     Milan: coll. Brera 4993
4 4     Private coll. CGT, ex Gitbud & Naumann
5 5     Private coll. F. Vink, Netherlands = Lanz 92 (04/06/1999), 720, both sides with traces silver cover?, reverse with tracles of tooling?