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cn coin 53197

Connected to Type

CN Type 7703 🔍

Mint
Philippopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

177-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV ΚΑΙ Μ(Ρ) ΑV(Ρ,ΡΗ) ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Zeus enthroned left, holding patera and sceptre.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18.5 mm
Weight
2.23 g
Axis
9
Owner

Historisches Museum Basel, Basel, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1908.1021.

Literature

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 193, nr. XI.76 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 131, nr. 1122 ❐

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. 7551, 7552 ❐

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cn coin 53197, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53197 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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