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cn coin 56545

Connected to Type

CN Type 5764 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

184-185 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΓΕ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟV ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤ
Design
Nude Hermes standing left, holding purse and caduceus; at his feet, ram.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Julius Castus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25.6 mm
Weight
9.45 g
Axis
7
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.271

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. 271  ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 137, nr. 118 ❐

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. 10426 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 272, nr. 3322 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/202486 ❐

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cn coin 56545, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56545 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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