cn type 5699

Mint

Hadrianopolis 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

184-185 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ

Design

Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΓΕ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Design

Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles brandishing club and siezing the fallen Diomedes by the head; to left and to right, prancing horses.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Julius Castus 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

4 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

25 mm (1x)

Average Weight

9.77 g (1x)

Axes

6 (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. 10483 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 137-138, nr. 123 ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 274, nr. 3331 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10483 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 5699, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5699 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]