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cn coin 355

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CN Type 7048 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 178 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1448_V83 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΡ ΚΡΙϹΠΙΝΑ ϹЄΒ ⠁ ΑVΤ Κ ⠁ Λ ⠁ ΑVΡΗ - ΚΟΜΟ-ΔΟϹ
Design
Confronted busts of youthful Commodus, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Crispina diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1454_R134 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse · ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ЄΠ ΑΙ ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟV Η
Design
Artemis advancing left, wearing long garment, holding in each hand short torch upwards.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Aelius Ponticus 🔍

Sitter: Crispina 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
30 mm
Owner

Uffizien, Florenz, it

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Uff, Commod.-Crisp. Br.M. 100.9, MS II 253,294

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 1454, Uff, Commod.-Crisp.

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8714

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 63, nr. 1454, pl. 76, pic. 1454 

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 2, pic. 8 

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. 63, nr. 1454-1455, pl. 76

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 2, pic. 8

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

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. 8714

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cn coin 355, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_355 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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