cn coin 56742

Connected to Type

CN Type 8043 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 212-217 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑVΓΟVϹΤΟϹ

Design

Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass, holding spear.
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Countermark

Inlaid in silver, coat of arms eagle of the d'Este on an oval background

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΑΙ ΠΟ*ΝΤ*ΙΚΟV ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ*

Design

Two torches, inbetween, lighted altar.
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Persons

Sitter

Caracalla 🔍 ❐

Magistrate

Aelius Ponticus (2) 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

7 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Weight

17.38 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Provenience: Lanz 92 (05.06.1999) 820; MM AG 52 (1975) 280; ex Slg. d'Este

Public Commentary

For the countermark, see J. Friedländer, Repertorium zur antiken Numismatik (1885) 18; A. Pancotti - J. Grimaldi, La diaspora della collezione numismatica di Casa d’Este in: Si tiene pegno in Guardaroba. Monete d’oro con la contromarca di Casa d’Este nel Medagliere Mediceo. Exhibition catalogue Florenz (2014) 347-358; B. Simonetta - R. Riva, «Aquiletta» Estense o «aquiletta» Gonzaga?, QT 8, 1979, 359-373; B. Simonetta - R. Riva, Ancora sull'aquiletta Gonzaga e non Estense, QT 12, 1983, 333-341; C. Poggi, La collezione numismatica di Alfonso II d'Este: una attribuzione delle monete recanti la cosiddetta 'aquiletta estense o gonzaga' in: J. Dobrinić (ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Numismatic Congress in Croatia 11th-14th October 2001 (2002) 189-200; H. Rambach, On the countermarked ancient coins from the collection of Alphonso II d'Este (1533-1597), The Asylum 36, 2018, 13-17; H. Rambach, In Monte Artium. Journal of the Royal Library of Belgium 10, 2017, 103-117. See also: https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/5811

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 78, nr. 1554-1556, pl. 85  ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 513  ❐

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