cn coin 3996
- Connected to Type
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CN Type 3144 🔍
- Date
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222-235 AD
Roman Imperial Period
- Obverse
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- Die
- Per_0789_V_E 🔍
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- Legend
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ΑV Κ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕV - ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ
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- Design
- Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; with aegis on left shoulder.
- Reverse
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- Die
- Per_0788_R788 🔍
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- Legend
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ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙ*WΝ* / Β ΝΕ-WΚΟ/ΡWΝ - Ι*WΝWΝ*
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- 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.
- Owner
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Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, de
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Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: Nießen 12 398
Provenience: Sammlung Niessen
- Reproduction Owner
- BBAW, Berlin [de]
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Plaster Cast No: 789, Köln
- Findspot
- Köln, de [de] ❐
- Citation
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Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 243, nr. 789.1 ❐Reusch, Griechische Münzen und Inschriften der römischen Kaiserzeit aus Köln 22, 1938 p. 168, nr. 9, pl. 31, pic. 6 ❐
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- cn coin 3996, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3996 [Last downloaded: 2022/01/26]
- License:
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