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cn coin 23240

Connected to Type

CN Type 17761 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175–176 AD

Obverse
Legend
Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟVϹ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Nike standing right in biga, holding palm branch in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: Nikomedes 🔍

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

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41767837

Provenience: Fonds général.1302

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 1030; cn-pergamon-K_0640

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 2153, 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. 3242.4  ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1050 Nr. 1691  ❐

Literature

Howgego and Royal, Greek imperial countermarks: studies in the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire, London 1985 nr. 70 ❐

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. 3242 ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1050 ❐

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cn coin 23240, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_23240 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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