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Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 51559

Connected to Type

CN Type 18936 🔍

Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 188–192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV ΚΑΙ ΚΟΜΟΔΟ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑϹϹΙΩΝ
Design
Telesphorus standing facing, wearing hooded mantle.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16.5 mm
Weight
3.48 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.724

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. 149  ❐

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. 2587.3  ❐

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. 2587 ❐

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cn coin 51559, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51559 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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