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cn coin 51820

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CN Type 4868 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175-176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
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ΕΠΙ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟVϹ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
column surmounted by male statue of an emperor between two temples with six columns.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: Nikomedes 🔍

Metrology
Material
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
18.13 g
Axis
12
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 nr. 308, pl. 30, pic. 5 

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. 3244.1 

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1070 Nr. 305 

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. 3244, annot. 175-176 n. Chr.

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1070

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cn coin 51820, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51820 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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