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cn type 5697

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

184-185 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΑΝ
Design
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΓΕ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛЄΙΤ
Design
Nude Hermes seated left on rock, wearing petasus, holding caduceus in right hand, left resting on rock.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Julius Castus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm (1x)
Average Weight
11.47 g (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 137, nr. 119  ❐

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. 10536  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 273, nr. 3323 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10536 ❐

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cn type 5697, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5697 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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