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cn coin 2901

Connected to Type

CN Type 14358 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

184 AD

Obverse
Die
Anc_437-0_V 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV · ΚΑΙ · Λ · ΑVΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of lightly bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass with traces of paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Anc_437-0_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΓ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟV - ΑΓΧΙ//ΑΛЄΩΝ
Design
Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 29 mm
Owner

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Florenz, it ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1371

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 437, Florenz 1371

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 225, nr. 437  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 nr. 66  ❐

Sestini, Lettere e dissertazioni numismatiche sopra alcune medaglie rare della collezione Ainstieana, Livorno 1790 p. 51, nr. 2  ❐

Gessner, Numismata antiqua imperatorum Romanorum, latina et graeca ..., Tiguri 1738 pl. CXXVI, pic. 51  ❐

Bartoli, Nummophylacium Reginae Christinae: Quod Comprehendit Numismata Aerea Imperatorum Romanorum, Latina, Graeca atque in Coloniis Cusa, Hagae Comitum 1742 p. 452, pl. LXII, pic. 37  ❐

Literature

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 218, nr. 78 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/200189 ❐

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