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cn coin 28890

Connected to Type

CN Type 6869 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

177-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΥ Κ Λ Α - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Bare head of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟ-ΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Apollo advancing right, holding plectrum in lowered right hand and lyre with left hand on a short column; at his feet, left, griffin sitting left.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
3.50 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 134, 11. Oktober 2004, Lot-Nr. 1832.

Public Commentary

Ob auf dem bei Draganov genannten Exemplar auch ein Greif abgebildet ist, oder ob es sich um einen neuen Typ ohne Greif handelt, ist aufgrund der schlechten Abbildung nicht zu erkennen.

Literature

Draganov, New Coin Types of Hadrianopolis, Berlin 1998 p. 223, nr. 5 ❐

Draganov, New Coin Types of Hadrianopolis, Berlin 1998 p. 223, nr. 5 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/189558 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 28890, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_28890 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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