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cn coin 15329

Connected to Type

CN Type 3430 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

177-180 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse [ΑV Κ] Λ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟ-ΜΟΔΟ[Ϲ ΓЄΡΜ]
Design
Laureate and draped bust of Commodus, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Є-ΠΙ ΑΡΧ · ΑΙΛ · ΖΩ-ΙΛΟV *ΤΟ* Β // ΑΒVΔΗΝ
Design
Hero and Leander: to left, nude Leander swimming right; behind, helmet, cloak, sword and shield, below, fish; above, Eros, holding torch; to right, Hero standing on top of tower, holding lamp. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Archon: Ail. Zoilos 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 38 mm / Min: 36 mm
Owner

Arolsen, Bad Arolsen, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Arolsen 54, ……….AVPH KOMMOΔΟ……, unb.. LPM., h

Literature

Price, Greek imperial coins. Some recent acquisitions by the British Museum 11, 1971 p. 129-130, nr. 15, pl. 25, pic. 15 ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 30 ❐

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. 30 ❐

Price, Greek imperial coins. Some recent acquisitions by the British Museum 11, 1971 p. 129-130, nr. 15, pl. 25, pic. 15 ❐

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cn coin 15329, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15329 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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