cn coin 51558
- Connected to Type
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CN Type 18929 🔍
- Date
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180–184 AD
Roman Imperial Period 🔍
- Obverse
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- Legend
- ΑV Μ ΑV ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
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- Design
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Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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- Reverse
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- Legend
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ΚΡΙΝΑΚΙΔΗᛈ // ΑᛈᛈΙΩΝ
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- Design
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Serpent on altar, right.
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- Owner
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Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston,
us
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Owner Inventory No.: 84.723
Provenience: Acquired in the division of coins following the excavations at Assos. Some coins in the group were said to have been "purchased from natives of the surrounding district." No specific findspot is known for this coin. 1884: gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to the Museum of Fine Arts
- Citation
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Bell, Coins from Assos, London-Cambridge, MA-Leipzig 1902 p. 304, nr. 148 ❐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. 65,9 ❐
- Literature
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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. 65 ❐Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 39, nr. 25, pl. VII, pic. 17 ❐
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- cn coin 51558, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51558 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/04]
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