cn type 8353

Mint

Philippopolis 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

187-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ

Design

Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΓΕ ΚΑΙ ϹΕΡΟΥΕΙΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Design

Eagle standing right, head left, wings closed, holding wreath in beak; in front, coiling serpent.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Quintus Caecilius Secundus Servilianus 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Citation

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 137, nr. XI.15.3 ❐

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. 7521 ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 116, nr. 931 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7521 ❐

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cn type 8353, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8353 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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