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cn coin 55898

Connected to Type

CN Type 17221 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175–177 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Λ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΓЄΡΜ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚVΖΙΚΗ ΝΕΟΚΟΡ
Design
Demeter standing in biga drawn by two winged serpents, right, holding torch in each hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27.3 mm
Weight
11.68 g
Axis
6
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.698

Provenience: Righetti

Citation

Kapossy and Righetti, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Schweiz. 2: Münzen der Antike: Katalog der Sammlung Jean-Pierre Righetti im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Bern 1993 nr. 698  ❐

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. 1618 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/197447 ❐

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cn coin 55898, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55898 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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