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cn coin 4509

Connected to Type

CN Type 5700 🔍

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_0124_R124 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse [...] Λ ΚΑϹΤΟΥ // ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠ/ΟΛΕΙΤ
Design
Turreted Cybele seated left, on lion jumping right, holding tympanum in right hand, left arm holding long sceptre.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Julius Castus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
11.49 g
Axis
8
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 619

Provenience: Fonds général 619

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 124.2, Paris 499

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 138, nr. 124.2  ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 10538.2  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.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, 1822 nr. 646  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 273, nr. 3327 ❐

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. 10538 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 138, nr. 124 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 273, nr. 3327 ❐

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cn coin 4509, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4509 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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