cn type 4858

Mint

Pergamon 🔍

Region: Mysia

Date

175-176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

Μ ΑVΡ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ

Design

Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΚΛ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟVϹ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ

Design

Fight between two heroes; to left, nude warrior with Corinthian helmet, holding shield and spear; to right, nude warrior holding sword and fallen on his knees; behind him shield. In the left field, a downward-pointing spear.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍

Strategos: Nikomedes 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 36 mm / Min: 32 mm

Average Weight

21.50 g (5x)

Axes

12 (4x)

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. 3245, annot. 175-176 n. Chr. ❐

Weisser, Die kaiserzeitliche Münzprägung von Pergamon, München 1995 nr. 9.3. T 1060 ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3245 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 4858, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4858 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]