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cn coin 51841

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CN Type 17776 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 177–179 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ ΚΑ Λ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΠΩΛΛ ΠΕΡΓΑ ΝΕΟΚ Β
Design
Veiled Demeter with polos standing facing, holding two torches.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: I. Pollion [II?] 🔍

Metrology
Material
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
6.76 g
Axis
12
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr

Provenience: Delepierre 327, under 'Elaea'

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. 220.3 

Literature

Howgego and Royal, Greek imperial countermarks: studies in the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire, London 1985 nr. 480

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. 220

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 10.3. T 1365

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cn coin 51841, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51841 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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