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cn coin 28173

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
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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 🔍  

Strategos: Nikomedes 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
21.23 g
Axis
12
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 437; cn-pergamon-K_0651

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 150, nr. 305, pl. 30, pic. 2  ❐

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. 3245.1  ❐

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. 3245, annot. 175-176 n. Chr. ❐

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

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