Anchialos, Commodus, bronze (CN type 14358)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
184 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Commodus dated 184 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 14358. Obverse: Laureate bust of lightly bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass with traces of paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 29–30 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Commodus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of lightly bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass with traces of paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV · ΚΑΙ · Λ · ΑVΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΗΓ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟV ΑΓΧΙΑΛЄΩΝ
Identification
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/14358
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 14358
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Research required
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- external concordanceRPC IV, 4528.
Research required
- Weight not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution