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cn coin 4508

Connected to Type

CN Type 5699 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

184-185 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0123_V75 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡΗ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0123_R123 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΓΕ - ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑ//ΝΟΠΟΛΕΙ/ΤΩΝ
Design
Heracles with Diomedes and horses; in the middle, Heracles standing left, head right, brandishing club in raised right hand and grasping Diomedes, fallen on his knees to right, by the head with left hand; to left, horse galloping right, below, wheel; to right, three horses to right, lowest one fallen, upper one pouncing right.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Julius Castus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
9.77 g
Axis
6
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 628

Provenience: Fonds général 628

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 123.3, Paris 508

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 137-8, nr. 123.3  ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 10483.4  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. 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, Paris 1806 nr. 147  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 274, nr. 3331 ❐

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. 10483 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 137-138, nr. 123 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 274, nr. 3331 ❐

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cn coin 4508, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4508 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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