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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 6264637, member: 57495"]I've had this coin for a few months now, a seemingly unique example of a previously unpublished type for Commodus at Philippopolis. Yesterday I submitted it to RPC and this morning received a quick reply indicating that it now has <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">its own entry</a> in the ever-expanding RPC online database. </p><p><br /></p><p>RPC currently lists <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=commodus+philippopolis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=commodus+philippopolis" rel="nofollow">146 entries</a> for Commodus's coins struck at Philippopolis, but only two, including mine, have Heracles as a reverse type. The governor named on the coin, Caecilius Maternus, narrows the date of the issue down to around AD 187. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248049[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>AE30. 18.71g, 30.4mm. THRACE, Philippopolis, circa AD 187. Caecilius Maternus (legatus Augusti pro praetore provinciae Thraciae). Varbanov -; SNG Cop -; BMC -; Corpus Nummorum Online -; RPC Online IV.1 temp 11896/1 (<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"><i>this coin</i></a>). O: AV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑV ΚΟΜΟΔΟΣ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: ΗΓΕ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΤΕΡΝΟΥ 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>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 6264637, member: 57495"]I've had this coin for a few months now, a seemingly unique example of a previously unpublished type for Commodus at Philippopolis. Yesterday I submitted it to RPC and this morning received a quick reply indicating that it now has [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11896']its own entry[/URL] in the ever-expanding RPC online database. RPC currently lists [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=commodus+philippopolis']146 entries[/URL] for Commodus's coins struck at Philippopolis, but only two, including mine, have Heracles as a reverse type. The governor named on the coin, Caecilius Maternus, narrows the date of the issue down to around AD 187. [ATTACH=full]1248049[/ATTACH] [B]COMMODUS[/B] AE30. 18.71g, 30.4mm. THRACE, Philippopolis, circa AD 187. Caecilius Maternus (legatus Augusti pro praetore provinciae Thraciae). Varbanov -; SNG Cop -; BMC -; Corpus Nummorum Online -; RPC Online IV.1 temp 11896/1 ([URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11896'][I]this coin[/I][/URL]). O: AV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑV ΚΟΜΟΔΟΣ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: ΗΓΕ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΤΕΡΝΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠ/ΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Heracles standing right, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm, holding club set on ground in right hand.[/QUOTE]
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