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cn coin 22448

Connected to Type

CN Type 7097 🔍

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 179-180 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤΟ Κ Λ ΑV(Ρ) ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of lightly bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΚΑΠΙΤΩ[ΝΟϹ] ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
nude Apollo standing, r., crossing legs, holding right hand on over head, resting left arm on decorated pillar surmounted by lyre; to l., laurel-tree entwined by serpent (Python).
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
9.69 g
Axis
12
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 41767044

Provenience: Fonds général.338; Waddington 801

Citation

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 132, nr. 123.1  ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 2559.1  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 980, pl. 50  ❐

Literature

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 132, nr. 119-123, annot. zw. 178-182 n. Chr. ❐

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. 651, 2559, annot. ca. 179-180 n. Chr. ❐

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cn coin 22448, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_22448 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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