cn coin 51610

Connected to Type

CN Type 219 🔍

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

244-247 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΜΑΡ ΙΟVΛΙΟϹ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ

Design

Confronted busts of Philippus iunior, bare-headed, and of Serapis, wearing kalathos.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Design

Zeus standing left, holding patera and sceptre; at his feet, eagle.
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Persons

Sitter

Philippus iunior 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

4 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Weight

12.71 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger eA 366 (29.10.2000) lot 411, ex Sammlung Marcel Burstein, Nevada

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 361, nr. 4298  ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 442, nr. 417-419, pl. 153, pic. 417-419 (Patera is interpreted as thunderbolt.)   ❐

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cn coin 51610, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51610 [Last downloaded: 2026/01/17]

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