cn coin 3997

Obverse

Design: Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; with aegis on left shoulder.
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Reverse

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

Metrology

Owner: Unknown, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Uffizien?

Reproduction Owner: BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Uff. Sev. Alex. Perinthus AE

Literature: Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 243, nr. 789 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 157, nr. 58 ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 411, nr. 316 ❐

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