Maroneia, Commodus, Double unit (CN type 1318)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
177-192 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Maroneia in Thrace under Commodus dated 177-192 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1318. Obverse: Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Dionysus standing left, holding two spears in left arm.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 22 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 5.63 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Maroneia
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Commodus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Dionysus standing left, holding two spears in left arm.
- Obverse legend
- ΑΥ[Τ] ΚΑΙ ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΜΑΡΩΝΕΙΤΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1318
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1318
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 215-216, nr. 1708-1708a
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 9326
- external concordanceRPC IV.1, 9326
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution