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cn coin 345

Connected to Type

CN Type 7031 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 178 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1445_V81 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Λ ΑVΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Confronted busts of youthful Commodus, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Crispina diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1444_R125 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ЄΠ · - ΑΙ · ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟV · *ΗΡ* ·
Design
Upright torch.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Aelius Ponticus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
17.97 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 406

Provenience: Fonds général 406

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1445, Paris 406

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8712

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 62, nr. 1445, pl. 75, pic. 1445  ❐

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. 253, nr. 291  ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 2, pic. 2  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 35, nr. 12  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 62, nr. 1444 ❐

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. 8712 (Dated 177-180.)  ❐

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cn coin 345, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_345 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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