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cn type 5794

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

177-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Κ Λ Α ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Heracles standing right, resting on club, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm (1x)
Average Weight
2.80 g (1x)
Axes
6 (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 143, nr. 154  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 270, nr. 3283 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10574 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 5794, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5794 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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