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A bronze coin of Commodus from Gerasa in the Decapolis with a reverse showing Tyche and a river god Coin Type: Holed bronze AE19 of Commodus, Caesar 175-176 CE, Augustus 177-192 CE
Mint and Date: Gerasa in the Decapolis, 177-192 CE
Size and Weight: 17mm x 19mm, 5.02g
Obverse: AYT K Λ AYP KOM
Laureate bust right wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
Reverse: ANTΩ ΠP XP TΩ ΠP Γ
Tyche, turreted, seated left on rock, upper part of body and head right, holding ears of barley in each hand, and resting foot on swimming river-god.
Provenance: Andreas Reich (private), March 2010. Ex Helios Numismatics.
Ref: Spijkerman 22.
BW Ref: 019 048 155
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Note 1: The legends were completed by reference to the Roman Provincial Coinage Online: Spijkerman 22. The Spijkerman 22 coin may be from the same dies.

Note 2: The reverse legend probably expands to ANT(IOXEΩN) ΠP(OΣ) XP(YΣOPPOA) TΩ(N) ΠP(OTEPON) Γ(EPAΣHNΩN), i.e. "of the Antiochians on the Chrysorhoas formerly known as Gerasenes". This is a title we know from some inscriptions. (Thanks to the user Dapsul on the Forum Classical Numismatics Discussion Board for this information.)

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