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cn type 17786

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Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 180–182 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤΟ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of lightly bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
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ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΠΙΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ
Design
Asclepius siting in biga drawn by two centaurs, left. Asclepius holding statue of Artemis of Ephesus and serpent-staff.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: Publius Aelius Pios 🔍

Metrology
Material
Diameter
Max: 40 mm / Min: 39 mm
Average Weight
42.35 g (1x)
Axes
6 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation

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. 3283 

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 10.5. T 1220 

Franke and Nollé, Die Homonoia-Münzen Kleinasiens und der thrakischen Randgebiete, Saarbrücken 1997 p. 160, nr. 27 

Kampmann, Die Homonoia-Verbindungen der Stadt Pergamon, oder, Der Versuch einer kleinasiatischen Stadt unter römischer Herrschaft eigenständige Politik zu betreiben, Saarbrücken 1996 p. 105, nr. 28 

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3283

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cn type 17786, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/17786 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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