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cn coin 1098

Connected to Type
CN Type 8550 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 253-259 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1813_V245 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Π ΛΙΚ ΟVΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕ
Design
Laureate bust of Valerian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1815_R462 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑ-ΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Prize crown, containing two palm branches.
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Persons
Sitter
Valerian I. 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
7.6 g
Owner
British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 1815, London 201
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 119, nr. 1815.3 
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 106, nr. 101 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 119, nr. 1815-1816, pl. 107, pic. 1815-1816  
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cn coin 1098, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1098 [Last downloaded: 2024/11/04]
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