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cn type 5754

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

180-182 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΓ(Ε) ϹΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤ(ΟΝ)
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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Type variations

1. Legend of the revers: ΗΓ ϹΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤ.

2. Legend of the revers: ΗΓE ϹΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΥ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤON.

Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Titus Suellius Marcianus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 135, nr. 110-111  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 271, nr. 3306 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 5754, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5754 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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