Anchialus 2901

Photographer: BBAW

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Emperor

Date

Mint

Provinz

Denomination

Obverse

Symbol Commodus
Design Laureate bust of lightly bearded Commodus, right, wearing cuirass with traces of paludamentum.
Legend ΑV · ΚΑΙ · Λ · ΑVΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ

Reverse

Symbol Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Tryptolemus
Design Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
Legend ΗΓ ΙΟVΛ ΚΑϹΤΟV - ΑΓΧΙ//ΑΛЄΩΝ

Literature

Reference

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 225, nr. 437 ❐ Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 nr. 66 ❐ Sestini, Lettere e dissertazioni numismatiche sopra alcune medaglie rare della collezione Ainstieana, Livorno 1790 p. 51, nr. 2 ❐ Gessner, Numismata antiqua imperatorum Romanorum, latina et graeca ..., Tiguri 1738 pl. CXXVI, pic. 51 ❐ Bartoli, Nummophylacium Reginae Christinae: Quod Comprehendit Numismata Aerea Imperatorum Romanorum, Latina, Graeca atque in Coloniis Cusa, Hagae Comitum 1742 p. 452, pl. LXII, pic. 37

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