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cn type 5701

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

180-182 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 ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛ(Є)ΙΤ(ΩΝ)
Design
Emperor (Commodus) in military attire riding right on horseback, holding spear in right hand.
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Type variations

1. Legend of the avers: ΗΓΕ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛЄΙΤ.

2. Legend of the avers: ΗΓΕ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ.

Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Titus Suellius Marcianus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm (1x)
Average Weight
11.66 g (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. 10540  ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 138, nr. 126-128  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 274, nr. 3330 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10540 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 5701, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5701 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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