Anchialos, Commodus, 5 unit (CN type 22153)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
186 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Commodus dated 186 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22153. Obverse: Laureate bust of Commodus, right, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Closed city gate, flanked by two round towers with conical roof; above, gallery of six arches.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 5 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 27–28 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 13.9 g (mean of 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
- Closed city gate, flanked by two round towers with conical roof; above, gallery of six arches.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΗΓ ΚΑΙ ϹЄΡΟVΙΛΙΑΝΟV ΑΓΧΙΑΛЄΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22153
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22153
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. 412, nr. 65-70, pl. 21-22
- external concordance
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution