cn coin 51837
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cn coin 51837

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CN Type 17773 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175–176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
[ΜΑ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ]
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ Ϲ[ΤΡΑ ΚΛ? ΝΙΚ]ΟΜΗΔΟVϹ [Ν]ΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ [ ] ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗ[ΝΩΝ]
Design
fight between two heroes; to left, nude worrior holding shield and spear; to right, nude warrior holding sword and a shield, he has fallen on his knees.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: Nikomedes 🔍

Metrology
Material
Diameter
35 mm
Weight
19.88 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Numismatik Naumann 44 (07/06/2016), 575, worn, obverse legend obscure, perhaps with additional obverse legend variation

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. 11328.1 

Literature

Howgego and Royal, Greek imperial countermarks: studies in the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire, London 1985 nr. 70

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. 11328

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1060

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cn coin 51837, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51837 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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