cn coin 51917

Connected to Type

CN Type 4893 🔍

Mint

Pergamon 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 180-182 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤΟ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ

Design

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

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΑΙ ΓΛVΚΩΝΙΑΝΟV ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ

Design

Zeus and four personifications; Zeus standing facing, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; in front of him Thalassa and Gaia reclining; between them an eagle; in left field bust of Selene; in right field bust of Helios.

Persons

Sitter

Commodus 🔍 ❐

Strategos

Marcus Aelius Glykonianos 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

45 mm

Weight

47.06 g

Axis

1

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 2008.1057
Provenience: November 20-21, 1981, anonymous sale (Auction 11), Frank Sternberg AG, Zürich, lot 268, sold to Cornelius C. Vermeule, III (b. 1925 – d. 2008), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 2008, gift of Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 22, 2008)

Public Commentary

gelocht

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. 3112.8 ❐

Literature

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. 3112, annot. ca. 180-182 n. Chr. ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 10.1. T 1180 ❐

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cn coin 51917, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51917 [Last downloaded: 2023/03/31]

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