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cn type 5700

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
[...] Λ ΚΑϹΤΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤ
Design
Cybele seated on lion jumping right, holding tympanum and sceptre.
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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
11.49 g (1x)
Axes
8 (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. 10538  ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 138, nr. 124  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 273, nr. 3327 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10538 ❐

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cn type 5700, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5700 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/12]

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