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cn type 17559

Mint
Apollonia ad Rhyndacum 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 180–192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡΗΛ ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ
Design
Daphne und Apollon; to r., draped Apollo moving left; right arm grasping laurel tree; to l., Daphne kneeling in front of a tree and embracing it with both arms.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm (1x)
Average Weight
10.69 g (1x)
Axes
5 (1x)
Citation

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 85, nr. 268  ❐

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. 450  ❐

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7202  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/450 ❐

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cn type 17559, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/17559 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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