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Live auction - bpv_347238 - KINGDOM OF COMMAGENE - EPIPHANES AND KALLINICUS Unité

KINGDOM OF COMMAGENE - EPIPHANES AND KALLINICUS Unité XF
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Type : Unité
Date: 72
Mint name / Town : Samosate, Syrie, Commagène
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et épais bien centré des deux côtés. Représentation inhabituelle du droit. Joli revers. Très belle patine verte épaisse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Épiphanes et Callinicus sous les traits des Dioscures à cheval au pas à gauche.
Obverse legend : BASILEWS UIOI

Reverse


Reverse description : Capricorne dans une couronne de laurier accosté d’une étoile au-dessus et d’une ancre couhée au-dessous.
Reverse legend : KOMMAG-HNWN, (Kommaghnwn)
Reverse translation : (De Commagène).

Commentary


Tranche biseautée. Les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont répertorié vingt exemplaires avec un poids moyen de 7,55 g pour seize exemplaires avec un axe des coins à 12 heures. Ce type est le dernier avant le rattachement définitif du Royaume et son annexion par Vespasien en 72.
Beveled edge. The authors of the Roman Provincial Coinage have listed twenty examples with an average weight of 7.55 g for sixteen examples with a die axis at 12 o'clock. This type is the last before the definitive attachment of the Kingdom and its annexation by Vespasian in 72

Historical background


KINGDOM OF COMMAGENE - EPIPHANES AND KALLINICUS

(72)

After the abdication of Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 72, his two sons named Epiphanes and Callinicus were first designated to succeed him. Eventually, Vespasian incorporated the kingdom into the Empire.

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