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cn coin 357

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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_1455_R135 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ЄΠΙ ΑΙ ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟV Η ·
Design
Artemis advancing left, wearing long garment, holding in right hand short torch upwards and in left hand short torch downwards.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Aelius Ponticus 🔍

Sitter: Crispina 🔍  

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

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1455, London 165

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 63, nr. 1455.2, pl. 76, pic. 1455/2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 100, nr. 69  ❐

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 357, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_357 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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