cn coin 11687

Connected to Type

CN Type 8441 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 222-235 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ

Design

Radiate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ

Design

Emperor (Severus Alexander) in military attire with spear riding right on horseback, besides lion running right.
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Persons

Sitter

Severus Alexander 🔍 ❐

Magistrate

Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate

Aelia Festa 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Medallion 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Weight

26.32 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Provenience: Fonds général 473

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 103, nr. 1737, pl. 100, pic. 1737  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 93  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 44, pic. 5  ❐

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cn coin 11687, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11687 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]

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