Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ27 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ ΜΟϹΧΙΑΝΟΥ ΠΑΝΚΛΕΟΥϹ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΔΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Apollonis (Conventus of Pergamum) |
|---|---|
| Year | 184-187 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Commodus facing right, with short beard, draped in paludamentum over cuirass, the bust presented from a rear three-quarter perspective. The effigy conveys the imperial military character typical of Commodan provincial portraiture. The surrounding field carries the abbreviated Greek legend identifying the emperor. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Apollonis was a small Lydian city of modest political weight, which makes the naming of a local magistrate on a civic bronze issue the primary record of his existence. Moschianus, son of Pankleos, held the archonship sometime in the mid-180s — years when Commodus was deepening his identification with Hercules and systematically alienating the Senate in Rome. None of that turbulence reached Apollonis in any visible way. The city simply minted.