cn type 7804

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 178 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΡ ΚΡΙϹΠΙΝΑ ϹΕΒ ΑVΤ Κ Λ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ

Design

Confronted busts of youthful Commodus, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Crispina diademed and draped.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟV ΗΡ

Design

Corinthian helmet, right.
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Persons

Sitter: Commodus 🔍

eponymous deity/heroes: Aelius Ponticus 🔍

Sitter: Crispina 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

6 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 30 mm / Min: 29 mm

Average Weight

15.75 g (2x)

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3771

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 63, nr. 1451 ❐

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. 3771 ❐

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 151, nr. 80, pl. 5, pic. 47 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 35, nr. 12 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3771 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.344 🔍

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cn type 7804, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7804 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]