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cn coin 51558

Connected to Type

CN Type 18929 🔍

Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

180–184 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Μ ΑV ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΚΡΙΝΑΚΙΔΗᛈ // ΑᛈᛈΙΩΝ
Design
Serpent on altar, right.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Magistrate: Krinakides 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23.5 mm
Weight
6.35 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.723

Provenience: Acquired in the division of coins following the excavations at Assos. Some coins in the group were said to have been "purchased from natives of the surrounding district." No specific findspot is known for this coin. 1884: gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to the Museum of Fine Arts

Citation

Bell, Coins from Assos, London-Cambridge, MA-Leipzig 1902 p. 304, nr. 148  ❐

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. 65,9  ❐

Literature

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. 65 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 39, nr. 25, pl. VII, pic. 17 ❐

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cn coin 51558, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51558 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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