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cn type 8606

Mint
Philippopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

180-182 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΓΕ ϹΟVЄΛ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟV ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nike standing right in biga, right.
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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. 133, nr. XI.7.2  ❐

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. 7527  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 115, nr. 923 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7527 ❐

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cn type 8606, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8606 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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