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cn coin 10740

Connected to Type
CN Type 219 🔍
Mint
Mesembria 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
244-247 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡ ΙΟVΛΙΟϹ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ // ΚΑΙϹ*ΑΡ*
Design
Confronting busts of Philippus iunior, wearing paludamentum and of Serapis, draped and wearing kalathos.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Zeus standing left, head right, cloak over left shoulder, holding patera in outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand; at his feet, left, eagle standing left, head right, wings half spread.
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Persons
Sitter
Philippus iunior 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
11.76 g
Axis
7
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 18249901
Provenience: 1920/657
Literature
Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 442, nr. 417-419, pl. 153, pic. 417-419 (Patera is interpreted as thunderbolt.)   
Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 361, nr. 4298  
Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 361, nr. 4298  
Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 442, nr. 417-419, pl. 153, pic. 417-419 (Patera is interpreted as thunderbolt.)   
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cn coin 10740, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10740 [Last downloaded: 2026/01/24]
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