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cn coin 6410

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CN Type 8104 🔍

Mint
Elaious 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

177-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΛ-ΑΙΟ-VϹ-ΙΩΝ
Design
Prow, right, with naval ram in shape of human head, acrostolium in shape of stag's head; keel ending as boar's head; on hull dolphin swimming right and two portholes; on prow hero Protesilaos standing right, wearing helmet and cuirass, holding spear in right arm, raising left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
10.19 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235375

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Merlin

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=10954

Citation

Fox, Engravings of Unedited or Rare Greek Coins: With descriptions, London 1856 p. 23, nr. 130, pl. 7  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 46, nr. 43  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 264-265, nr. 11, pl. 7, pic. 63  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Beiträge zur Erklärung griechischer Münztypen 5, 1910 p. 26, nr. 1, pl. 2, pic. 1  ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 10954.1  ❐

Literature

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 5474 ❐

Fox, Engravings of Unedited or Rare Greek Coins: With descriptions, London 1856 p. 23, nr. 130, pl. 7 ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 46, nr. 43 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 264-265, nr. 11, pl. 7, pic. 63 ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Beiträge zur Erklärung griechischer Münztypen 5, 1910 p. 26, nr. 1, pl. 2, pic. 1 ❐

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. 10954 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 5474 ❐

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cn coin 6410, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6410 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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