Object Title
Medallion of Pergamum with Bust of Commodus, struck under P. Aelius Pius
Measurements
Diameter: 45 mm.; weight: 47.06 gm.; die axis: 1
Creation Date
A.D. 180—182
Credit Line
Gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/medallion-of-pergamum-with-bust-of-commodus-struck-under-p-aelius-pius-446681
Provenance Information
November 20-21, 1981, anonymous sale (Auction 11), Frank Sternberg AG, Zürich, lot 268, sold to Cornelius C. Vermeule, III (b. 1925 – d. 2008), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 2008, gift of Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 22, 2008)
NOTES: [1] Lent by Cornelius Vermeule to the MFA from 2004 until 2008 (loan no. L-G 115.2.2004).
NOTES: [1] Lent by Cornelius Vermeule to the MFA from 2004 until 2008 (loan no. L-G 115.2.2004).
Exhibition Information
Not known
Publication Information
Not known
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
The date and circumstances of the coin’s discovery are not known. The coin’s appearance in a 1981 auction in Switzerland ensures that it has been outside Turkey, its probable country of modern discovery, since before the passage of Law no. 2863 on the Protection of Cultural and National Assets (1983).