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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Philippopolis| > RP63215
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 Dec 192 A.D., Philippopolis, Thrace
|Philippopolis|, |Commodus,| |March| |or| |April| |177| |-| |31| |Dec| |192| |A.D.,| |Philippopolis,| |Thrace|, This is only the second example of this type known to Forum. All three references we list for this type actually refer to the same coin, described as having a completely uncertain obverse legend. That coin is now in the Archaeological Museum Sophia.
RP63215. Bronze assarion, RPC Online 7559, Varbanov III 1061 (R5), Mouchmov Philip 207, SNG Cop -, BMC Thrace -, Lindgren -, SNG Fitz -, SNG Hunterian -, et al. -, www -, VF, perhaps the finest of the type, Philippopolis (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) mint, weight 4.338g, maximum diameter 19.6mm, die axis 180o, obverse AY KAI M ANT - KOMMOΔOC, laureate head right; reverse ΦIΛIΠΠOΠOΛITΩN, Hera standing facing in long drapery, head left, veiled, patera in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand; 2nd known to Forum; USA import restricted type, from the old stock of a retiring Ohio dealer acquired by Forum in 2012; extremely rare; SOLD










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