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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 8303713, member: 57495&quot;]Congrats on that unique MSC!&nbsp; Always cool when we&#039;re able to adopt the only specimen of a coin type to survive the ages, and even cooler when we can contribute it for posterity to a database like RPC.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This Commodus from Philippopolis appears to be the only example of its type.&nbsp; It was unrecorded prior to my sending it over to RPC.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1469409[/ATTACH]<b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>AE30. 18.71g, 30.4mm. THRACE, Philippopolis, circa AD 187. Caecilius Maternus (legatus Augusti pro praetore provinciae Thraciae). Varbanov -; Mouchmov -; SNG Cop -; BMC -; Corpus Nummorum Online -; RPC Online IV.1 temp 11896/1 (<i><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11896" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11896" rel="nofollow">this coin</a></i>). O: AV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑV ΚΟΜΟΔΟΣ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: ΗΓΕ ΚΑΙ Μ[ΑΤ]ΕΡΝΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠ/ΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Heracles standing right, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm, holding club set on ground in right hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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