RPC IV.2, 3277 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3277 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Publius Aelius Pius (strategos)
Alliance with Ephesus
Issue Issue 2
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) 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 rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΠΙοΥ ΚοΙΝΟΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Κ ΕΦΕϹΙ
Edition ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Πίου κοινὸν Περγαμηνῶν κ(αὶ) Ἐφεσί(ων)
Translation under strategos Pius, the league of the Pergamenes and Ephesians
Reverse design to left, Asclepius standing, right, holding serpent-staff; at his feet, omphalos; to right, cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus standing, facing, wearing kalathos, having supports; between, small Nike flying, facing, crowning the two deities
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 42 mm
Average weight 39.63 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference Weisser 1280b, Franke & Nollé 1553–7, Kampmann 104, no. 24, BMC 355
Specimens 7 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
2 2     L: BMC 355
5 5     ✸ Winterthur: Inv. 6533 J. Schulman 275 (17/09/1982), 3837 = Weisser 1280, pl. 24
6 6     Hesperia Art Bulletin 8, no. 45 (rev.) = ex Boston 59.236 = Gemini 6 VI (10/01/2010), 829
7 7     NY: 1944.100.43369 Franke & Nollé 1554, pl. 73 (rev.) = Kampmann 104, no. 24.2, pl. 2 (R24)
9 9     Jean Elsen 78 (20/03/2004), 498, pl. 136, both sides tooled
10 10     J. Hirsch 13 (15/05/1905), coll. Rhousopoulos, 3352
11 11     B: 18231791, Fox