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cn coin 40687

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CN Type 13006 🔍

Mint
Tomis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

177-180 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΥΤ · Κ · Λ · ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of lightly bearded Commodus, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΗΤΡΟΠ ΠΟΝΤΟΥ ΤΜЄΩϹ
Design
Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding serpent-staff in right hand.
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Symbol
B (position: on the right)
Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23.1 mm / Min: 22.7 mm
Weight
9.06 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: Cat. 56. 15

Provenience: Moesia Inferior

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-tomis_0671

Literature

Pick and Regling, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. 2. Halbbd., Abt. 1: Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. Die Münzen von Odessos und Tomis ; mit einer Ergänzungstafel, Berlin 1910 p. 700, nr. 2690-2691 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 nr. 15 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/204799 ❐

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cn coin 40687, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40687 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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