Kyzikos, Commodus, bronze (CN type 23043)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
175-177 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
MysiaCoin type in bronze struck at Kyzikos in Mysia under Commodus dated 175-177 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 23043. Obverse: Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing paludamentum. Reverse: Galley with eight rowers and helmsman, right; on prow, Triton blowing conch; on stern, two standards; in water, fish (on left) and dolphin (on right).
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 23.35 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Kyzikos
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Commodus
Design
- Obverse type
- Bare-headed bust of youthful Commodus, right, wearing paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Galley with eight rowers and helmsman, right; on prow, Triton blowing conch; on stern, two standards; in water, fish (on left) and dolphin (on right).
- Obverse legend
- Λ ΑVΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΓΕΡ ϹΕΒ ΥΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝЄΟΚΟ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/23043
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 23043
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. 27, nr. 1
- external concordance
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution