cn coin 739

Connected to Type

CN Type 8786 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 222-235 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_2123_V21 🔍

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, one curl falling on each shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_2126_R47 🔍

Legend

ΕΠ - ΦΡΟΝΤΩ-ΝΟϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ*ΩΝ*

Design

Ostrich advancing right on a ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Magistrate

Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

3 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

22 mm

Weight

4.12 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: 2126, London 131

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 150, nr. 2126.6  ❐

Combe, Veterum Populorum Et Regum Numi Qui In Museo Britannico Adservantur, Londini 1814 p. 90, nr. 4  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 98, nr. 59  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 21 b  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 150, nr. 2126, pl. 131, pic. 2126  ❐

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cn coin 739, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_739 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/22]

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