Issuing authority
Roman Empire
Imperial Rome issued an extensive precious-metal and base-metal coinage across dozens of mints.
- Kind
- empire
- Region
- Mediterranean, Europe
- Recorded period
- 27 BC – AD 476
Eastern continuation catalogued separately as the Byzantine Empire.
Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.
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The British Museum
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 150A
RIC III Commodus 150A. Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT. The reverse shows hilaritas, draped, standing left, holding branch in right hand and long palm, nearly vertical, in left hand, with the legen…
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American Numismatic Society (OCRE partner collection)
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 155 (denarius)
RIC III Commodus 155 (denarius). Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT. The reverse shows nobilitas, draped, standing right, holding sceptre in right hand and stattuette of Minerva in extended left hand,…
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Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 460
RIC III Commodus 460. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT. The reverse shows janus, half-draped, standing front on low base, holding long sceptre nearly vertical in right hand and resting left…
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 494
RIC III Commodus 494. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT. The reverse shows pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense from patera in right hand on lighted altar left and holding…
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Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 549
RIC III Commodus 549. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT. The reverse shows commodus, togate, standing right and clasping right hands with senator, standing left, with the legend PIETATI SENAT…
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American Numismatic Society (OCRE partner collection)
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 164 (denarius)
RIC III Commodus 164 (denarius). Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT. The reverse shows aequitas, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand, with the legend P M T…
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American Numismatic Society (OCRE partner collection)
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 208 (denarius)
RIC III Commodus 208 (denarius). Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT P P. The reverse shows libertas, draped, standing front, head left, holding pileus in right hand and rod in left hand, with the lege…
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Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 212
RIC III Commodus 212. Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT P P. The reverse shows commodus, togate, seated left, holding branch in right hand and sceptre in left hand, with the legend P M TR P XV IMP VI…
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The British Museum
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 222A
RIC III Commodus 222A. Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT P P. The reverse shows minerva, helmeted, draped, advancing right, head turned back to left, wearing shield on left arm, and holding branch in…
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American Numismatic Society
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 578
RIC III Commodus 578. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMMOD ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT P P. The reverse shows apollo, draped in long robe, standing front, head right, holding plectrum in right hand and supporting lyre set on…
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The British Museum
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 579
RIC III Commodus 579. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend M COMMOD ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT P P. The reverse shows concordia, draped, standing left, holding patera in extended right hand and sceptre in left hand, with the legend…
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American Numismatic Society (OCRE partner collection)
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 251 (denarius)
RIC III Commodus 251 (denarius). Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, wearing lion-skin, right, with the legend L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL. The reverse shows club of Hercules with legend to either side in 3 lines within wreath, with the legend HERCVL ROMAN AVGV.
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American Numismatic Society (OCRE partner collection)
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 261 (denarius)
RIC III Commodus 261 (denarius). Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL. The reverse shows serapis, radiate, standing front, head left, holding branch in right hand and sceptre in left hand, with the leg…
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Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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RIC III Commodus 618
RIC III Commodus 618. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL. The reverse shows commodus, togate, seated left on curule chair on platform, attended by an officer; before him, Liberalitas, draped, stand…
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Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 637
RIC III Commodus 637. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, wearing lion-skin, right, with the legend L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL. The reverse shows upright club surrounded by laurel wreath, with the legend HERCVL ROMANO AVGV S C.
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Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
ancient coins
RIC III Commodus 640
RIC III Commodus 640. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Commodus, laureate, right, with the legend L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL. The reverse shows hercules, nude, wearing lion skin draped over left arm, standing right, resting right hand on trophy and holdind club in…
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
ancient coins
Denarius from the Roman Empire of Pertinax, 193
193
Reverse: Ops, the goddess of wealth, seated facing left holding two ears of corn in her right hand. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0071; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 1.8 cm x weight 2.98 g.
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The Digital Coin Cabinet of Mainz University (Roman Imperial coin), via OCRE / American Numismatic Society
ancient coins
RIC IV Clodius Albinus 11
AD 193–AD 195
Denarius in silver struck at Rome under Clodius Albinus, AD 193–AD 195, catalogued as RIC IV Clodius Albinus 11. Obverse: Head of Clodius Albinus, bare, right. Reverse: Roma, helmeted, draped, seated left on shield, holding palladium in outstretched right hand and sceptre in left hand. Reverse legend: ROMAE AETERNAE…
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The British Museum
ancient coins
RIC IV Clodius Albinus 62
RIC IV Clodius Albinus 62. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Clodius Albinus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Clodius Albinus, bare, right, with the legend D CLOD SEPT ALBIN CAES. The reverse shows concordia, draped, seated left, holding patera in right hand and double cornucopiae in left hand, with the leg…
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The British Museum — photograph sourced via the American Numismatic Society OCRE type corpus
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RIC IV Clodius Albinus 64
AD 193–AD 195
As in bronze struck at Lugdunum under Clodius Albinus, AD 193–AD 195, catalogued as RIC IV Clodius Albinus 64. Obverse: Head of Clodius Albinus, laureate, right. Reverse: Fortuna, draped, seated left, holding rudder set on globe in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand. Obverse legend: IMP CAES D CLO SEP ALB AVG.…
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American Numismatic Society (OCRE partner collection)
ancient coins
RIC IV Didius Julianus 10 (denarius)
AD 193
Denarius in silver struck at Rome under Didius Julianus, AD 193, catalogued as RIC IV Didius Julianus 10 (denarius). Obverse: Bust of Didia Clara, hair elaborately waved and coiled on back of head, draped, right. Reverse: Hilaritas, draped, standing left, holding a long palm in right hand and cornucopiae in left han…
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The British Museum — photograph sourced via the American Numismatic Society OCRE type corpus
ancient coins
RIC IV Didius Julianus 12
AD 193
Dupondius in bronze struck at Rome under Didius Julianus, AD 193, catalogued as RIC IV Didius Julianus 12. Obverse: Head of Didius Julianus, radiate, right. Reverse: Fortuna, draped, standing left, holding rudder set on globe in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand. Obverse legend: IMP CAES M DID IVLIAN AVG. Reve…
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The British Museum
ancient coins
RIC IV Didius Julianus 15
RIC IV Didius Julianus 15. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Didius Julianus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows head of Didius Julianus, laureate, right, with the legend IMP CAES M DID SEVER IVLIAN AVG. The reverse shows fortuna, draped, standing left, holding rudder set on globe in right hand and cornucopiae in left…
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American Numismatic Society
ancient coins
RIC IV Didius Julianus 18A
RIC IV Didius Julianus 18A. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Didius Julianus. Mint: Rome. The obverse shows bust of Manlia Scantilla, hair elaborately waved and coiled on back of head, draped, right, with the legend MANLIA SCANTILLA AVG. The reverse shows juno, veiled, draped, standing left, holding patera in ri…
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