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cn coin 23259

Connected to Type

CN Type 5954 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175-176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟVϹ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Athena enthroned left, holding Nike in right hand and a laurel-branch in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34 mm / Min: 33 mm
Weight
20.63 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41767856

Provenience: Fonds général.1320; Ex-collection Pellerin

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 1047; cn-pergamon-K_0666

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 2151, 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. 3238.3  ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1030 Nr. 1707  ❐

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. 3238, annot. 175-176 n. Chr. ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1030 ❐

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cn coin 23259, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_23259 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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