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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Hadrianopolis| > RP89884
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D., Hadrianopolis, Thrace
|Hadrianopolis|, |Commodus,| |March| |or| |April| |177| |-| |31| |December| |192| |A.D.,| |Hadrianopolis,| |Thrace|, The river connected to Hadrianopolis is Hebros (Hebrus), today the Maritsa (or Evros), the longest river of the Balkans.
RP89884. Bronze diassarion, RPC IV online T10457 (10 spec.); Jurukova 133, pl. 14; Varbanov II 3291 (R4); Lischine 418; BMC Thrace -; SNG Cop -, Nice gF, toned brass surfaces, light marks, central depressions, Hadrianopolis (Edirne, Turkey) mint, weight 9.249g, maximum diameter 23.53mm, die axis 15o, as caesar, 166 - 177 A.D.; obverse AY KAI Λ AY KOMOΔOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, light beard; reverse AΔPIANOΠOΛEI-TΩN, river-god Hebros reclining left, holding reed in his right hand, left elbow resting on vase from which water flows, reed growing in background behind legs; very rare; SOLD










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