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cn coin 51829

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CN Type 17769 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175–176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Μ ΑVΡ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
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[ΕΠΙ ϹΤ]ΡΑ Κ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟVϹ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Hygieia, Asclepius and Telesphorus; to left, Hygieia, holding serpent and patera; to right, Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding serpent staff in his right hand; inbetween, Telesphorus, standing facing.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: Nikomedes 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
35 mm
Weight
22.56 g
Axis
11
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 63.227

Provenience: By 1963: with Hesperia Art, 2219 St. James Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa. (Hesperia Art Bulletin XXI, no. 246); purchased by MFA from Robert E. Hecht, Jr., March 20, 1963

Citation

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. 3236.1  ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1035  ❐

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. 3236 ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1035 ❐

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