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cn type 5906

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

175-176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΜΑ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
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ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΚΛ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟVϹ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Athena standing to the left, with the right hand holding a shield on pillar; inbetween serpent and tree.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍  

Strategos: Nikomedes 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 35 mm / Min: 33 mm
Average Weight
21.98 g (2x)
Axes
12 (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. 3237, annot. 175-176 n. Chr.  ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1072  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3237 ❐

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cn type 5906, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5906 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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