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cn type 17789

Mint

Pergamon 🔍

Region: Mysia

Date

c. 180–182 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

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 ϹΤΡ ΠΙΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Κ ΕΦΕϹΙ

Design

Artemis and Asclepius; to left, Artemis standing, right, having quiver at shoulder, holding long torch; to right, Asclepius standing, left, holding long serpent-staff; serpent being fed by Artemis
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍

Strategos: Publius Aelius Pios 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 44 mm / Min: 41 mm

Average Weight

38.57 g (2x)

Axes

12 (2x)

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. 11333 ❐

Franke and Nollé, Die Homonoia-Münzen Kleinasiens und der thrakischen Randgebiete, Saarbrücken 1997 p. 161f., nr. 31 ❐

Kampmann, Die Homonoia-Verbindungen der Stadt Pergamon, oder, Der Versuch einer kleinasiatischen Stadt unter römischer Herrschaft eigenständige Politik zu betreiben, Saarbrücken 1996 p. 106, nr. 33 ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 10.5. T 1340 ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11333 ❐

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cn type 17789, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/17789 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]