Anchialos, Commodus, 3 unit (CN type 22139)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
184-185 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace3 unit in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Commodus dated 184-185 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22139. Obverse: Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Homonoia standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand over altar and cornucopia in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 3 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 19–23 mm (from 4 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 5.92 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Commodus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Homonoia standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand over altar and cornucopia in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV · ΚΑΙ Λ · ΑV - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22139
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22139
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. 408, nr. 41-44b, pl. 19-20
- external concordance
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution