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cn coin 3995

Connected to Type
CN Type 3143 🔍
Mint
Perinthos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology
Date
222-235 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Per_0784_V_D 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕV · ΑΛΕ-ΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass; with aegis on left shoulder; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0788_R788 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙ*WΝ* / Β ΝΕ-WΚΟ/ΡWΝ - Ι*WΝWΝ*
Design
Zeus within zodiac; in the middle, Zeus seated facing, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left resting on sceptre; at his feet, eagle to left, head right, with half spread wings; to upper left, Helios standing in quadriga, right, raising right arm; above, crescent; to upper right, Selene standing in biga of bulls, left, holding torch in raised right hand; above, star; below, reclining figures of Gaia to right, holding cornucopia in right arm and a branch in left hand, and of Thalassa to left, wearing a crab claws, holding ruder in left arm; prora at her feet; all within a double circle divided into twelve compartments containing the signs of the zodiac.
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Persons
Sitter
Severus Alexander 🔍 ❐
Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍 ❐
Diameter
Max: 41 mm / Min: 40 mm
Weight
37.25 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: 788, London 74
Citation
Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 242, nr. 788, pl. 49, pic. 788  ❐
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 157, nr. 58  ❐
Svoronos, Sur la signification des types monétaires des anciens 18, 1894 p. 104, nr. 3  ❐
Pick, Thrakische Münzbilder, 1898 p. 142, pl. 10, pic. 9  ❐
Imhoof-Blumer, Fluss- und Meergötter auf griechischen und römischen Münzen: Personifikationen der Gewässer 23, 1924 p. 401, nr. 556, pl. 17, pic. 16  ❐
Cook, Zeus: a study in ancient religion, Cambridge 1914 p. 752, nr. 552  ❐
Literature
Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 242, nr. 788  ❐
Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 65, nr. 476  ❐
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cn coin 3995, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3995 [Last downloaded: 2025/11/15]
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