cn coin 51841

Connected to Type

CN Type 17776 🔍

Mint

Pergamon 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 177–179 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ ΚΑ Λ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ

Design

Laureate bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΠΩΛΛ ΠΕΡΓΑ ΝΕΟΚ Β

Design

Veiled Demeter standing facing, holding two torches.
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Persons

Sitter

Commodus 🔍 ❐

Strategos

I. Pollion [II?] 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

23 mm

Weight

6.76 g

Axis

12

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Provenience: Delepierre 327, under 'Elaea'

Citation

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. 220.3  ❐

Literature

Howgego and Royal, Greek imperial countermarks: studies in the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire, London 1985 nr. 480  ❐

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. 220  ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 10.3. T 1365  ❐

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cn coin 51841, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51841 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/09]

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