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cn coin 51917

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CN Type 4893 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 180-182 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤΟ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΑΙ ΓΛVΚΩΝΙΑΝΟV ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Zeus and four personifications; Zeus standing facing, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; at his feet, Thalassa and Gaia reclining; between them an eagle; in left field bust of Selene; in right field bust of Helios.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: Marcus Aelius Glykonianos 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
45 mm
Weight
47.06 g
Axis
1
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2008.1057

Provenience: November 20-21, 1981, anonymous sale (Auction 11), Frank Sternberg AG, Zürich, lot 268, sold to Cornelius C. Vermeule, III (b. 1925 – d. 2008), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 2008, gift of Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 22, 2008)

Public Commentary

gelocht

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. 3112.8  ❐

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. 3112, annot. ca. 180-182 n. Chr. ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 10.1. T 1180 ❐

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cn coin 51917, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51917 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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