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Anchialos, Commodus, bronze (CN type 14365)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

188–192 n. Chr.

Issuing entity

Thrace

Coin type in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Commodus dated 188–192 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 14365. Obverse: Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing scale cuirass and 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
26–27 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Anchialos
Region
Thrace
Authority type
City
Issuing authority
Commodus

Design

Obverse type
Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing scale cuirass and 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
ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Reverse legend
ΗΓ ΚΑΙ ϹЄΡΟVΙΛΙΑΝΟV ΑΓΧΙΑΛЄΩΝ

Identification

Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/14365
Type corpus identifier
CN type 14365

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Material
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Weight
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