Miletoupolis, Commodus, bronze (CN type 19824)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 179-180 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
MysiaCoin type in bronze struck at Miletoupolis in Mysia under Commodus dated ca. 179-180 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 19824. Obverse: Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Hermes seated left on rock, wearing petasus, holding caduceus in right hand, left resting on rock.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 36–38 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 24.09 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Miletoupolis
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Commodus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Hermes seated left on rock, wearing petasus, holding caduceus in right hand, left resting on rock.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ΑVΡΗΛΙ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΕVΤVΧΟVϹ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟV ΜΕΙΛΗΤΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/19824
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 19824
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- 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. 93, nr. 14
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 252
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1318
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 609
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 83, nr. 41
- external concordance
Research required
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