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A billon tetradrachm of Commodus from Alexandria with a reverse showing a horned Zeus-Ammon Coin Type: Billon tetradrachm of Commodus, Caesar 175-176 CE, Augustus 177-192 CE
Mint and Date: Alexandria, 186-187 CE
Size and Weight: 23mm x 24mm, 11.05g
Obverse: M A KOM ANTΩ CЄB ЄV CЄB
Laureate head right.
Reverse: K / L - Z across fields (regnal year 27)
Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon right, crowned with a disk, ram's horn curling from brow.
Provenance: numismatiklanz (eBay), March 2010.
Ref: RCV —; Milne 2668; BMC Alexandria 1402.
BW Ref: 020 049 157
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Note: The first section of the obverse legend as shown here is taken from Milne and BMC Alexandria.


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