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Æ27 - Commodus ΤΑΝΑΓΡΑΙωΝ
| Issuer | Tanagra (Achaea) |
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| Year | 184-192 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Commodus facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Boeotian civic coinage. The portrait displays the characteristic features of the emperor with a laurel wreath crown. A circular Greek legend runs around the periphery of the flan, reading outward. The flan is irregular and the surface heavily worn, though the imperial effigy remains identifiable at center. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒΗϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Antoninus Pius) |
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Tanagra's civic bronze issues under Commodus belong to a broader resurgence of Greek provincial coinage tied to the emperor's philhellenism — he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries around 176 AD and maintained conspicuous ties to Greek religious culture throughout his reign. The city itself, in Boeotia, had been largely overshadowed by Thebes for centuries, and these later issues represent one of the more active phases of Tanagran civic minting.
The date range 184–192 brackets the period after Commodus shed his more restrained advisors following the failed assassination plot of 182, ruling with increasing autocracy until his murder on 31 December 192.