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cn coin 47253

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CN Type 7789 🔍

Mint
Dionysopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 184-190 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Heracles standing left, resting on club, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Symbol
Β (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19.4 mm
Weight
5.09 g
Axis
6
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Provenience: Gorny & Mosch, Auction 265, 686

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values I, 2005 p. 84, nr. 459 ❐

Tachev, Yanislav, The Coinage of Dionysopolis IV century BC - III century AD, Sofia 2020 p. 512, nr. 46-54, pl. 13 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Dionisopolis (IV vek pr. Hr. - III vek sl. Hr.), Balchik 2016 p. 476-477, nr. 40-54 (Tachev 2020)  ❐

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. IV.1.2592 ❐

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cn coin 47253, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47253 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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