Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 51560

Connected to Type

CN Type 18935 🔍

Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 188–192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV ΚΑΙ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑϹϹΙΩΝ
Design
Tyche standing left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder and cornucopia.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18.5 mm
Weight
3.25 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.725

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. 150  ❐

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. 63.10  ❐

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. 63 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 246, pl. 6, pic. 246 ❐

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cn coin 51560, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51560 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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