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cn coin 3972

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CN Type 14365 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

188–192 AD

Obverse
Die
Anc_440_V 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Anc_440_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΓ ΚΑΙ - ϹЄΡΟV-ΙΛΙΑΝΟV ΑΓΧΙΑΛЄΩΝ
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 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Quintus Caecilius Secundus Servilianus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Owner

Galleria, Museo e Medagliere Estense, Modena, it ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Modena 18

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. 227, nr. 440  ❐

Literature

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 410-411, nr. 52-53, pl. 20-21 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/207059 ❐

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cn coin 3972, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3972 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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