cn type 7049

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.343

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 ΑΙ 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

17.70 g (4x)

Axes

1 (1x) 6 (1x) 7 (1x)

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 62-63, nr. 1448.1452-1453  ❐

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  (Dated 178-180.)  ❐

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.343 🔍

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cn type 7049, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.343 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/16]

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