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cn coin 346

Connected to Type
CN Type 7031 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 178 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1445_V81 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Λ ΑVΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Confronted busts of youthful Commodus, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Crispina diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1446_R126 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ЄΠ · - ΑΙ · ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟV · *ΗΡ* ·
Design
Upright torch.
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Persons
Sitter
Commodus 🔍
eponymous deity/heroes
Aelius Ponticus 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
Max: 28.7 mm / Min: 28 mm
Weight
17.42 g
Axis
7
Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: GR 8501
Provenience: vor 1875
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 1446, Wien 52
Public Commentary
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8712
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 62, nr. 1446, pl. 76, pic. 1446 
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 35, nr. 12 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 62, nr. 1444  
Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8712 (Dated 177-180.)   
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cn coin 346, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_346 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/16]
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