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cn coin 5615

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Topeiros 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

154-155 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV Κ Τ ΑΙ ΑΔΡΙ - ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟ
Design
Radiate head of Antoninus Pius, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΙΟV ΚΟΜΟΔΟV ΤΟΠΕΙΡΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles seated left on rock covered with lion skin, resting right arm on club, resting left arm on rock.
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Persons

Sitter: Antoninus Pius 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Gaius Iulius Commodus Orfitianus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
8.07 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18235365

Provenience: 1873 Fox

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 237, nr. 1 

Literature

Peter, Gegenstempel und Pseudogegenstempel auf den Münzen von Topeiros., 2000 p. 715-720

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 175, nr. 4

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 5010

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. 5010

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cn coin 5615, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5615 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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