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cn coin 23238

Connected to Type

CN Type 4858 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175-176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Μ ΑVΡ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΚΛ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟVϹ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Fight between two heroes; to left, nude warrior with Corinthian helmet, holding shield and spear; to right, nude warrior holding sword and fallen on his knees; behind him shield. In the left field, a downward-pointing spear.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 35 mm / Min: 33 mm
Weight
20.19 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41767835

Provenience: Fonds général.1300

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 1058; cn-pergamon-K_0649

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 2149, pl. 107  ❐

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. 3245.4  ❐

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. 3245, annot. 175-176 n. Chr. ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1060 ❐

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cn coin 23238, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_23238 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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