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- KC072 (Early-Middle Roman diassarion of Commodus from Patrae) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Not after (date)
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185
- Not before (date)
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180
- Comment
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Coin dated ca. early to mid-180s.
- Comment
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JLR refined Weir 2022 (October 2024).
- Logical part of
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Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
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Coin
- Comparanda
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BCDPeloponnesos 563, p. 150
- Comparanda
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sim. RPC IV.1 9649 (temporary)
- Description
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Prominent centering dimple on obverse.
- Preservation comment
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Wear: G/VG. Slight, extensive pitting to rare incipient cratering; two small cracks in edge. Faint, tiny specks of dark bronze disease.
- Published as
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Weir2022, p. 1126, no. 802, fig. 23.5
- Axis (1-12)
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6
- Has denomination
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Diassarion
- Numismatic Authority
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M. Aurelius Commodus (180-192)
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
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24.0
- Numismatic Mint
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Patrae
- Numismatic Weight (g)
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8.48
- Obverse Description
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Laureate, draped, [and cuirassed] bust of emperor to right; within dotted border (traces)
- Obverse Inscription
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[IMP COM]ṂOD-[VS ANTO AVG]
- Reverse Description
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Zeus enthroned left, holding long scepter in upraised left arm and [Nike] in outstretched right arm; within dotted border (traces)
- Reverse Inscription
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CO[L A] - A - PẠ[TR]
- Belongs to Historical Period
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Early Roman (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
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Middle Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
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Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
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Zeus/Jupiter (Visual Motif)