cn coin 789

Connected to Type

CN Type 8041 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 212-217 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1553_V118 🔍

Legend

Α*ΝΤ*ΩΝΙΝΟϹ - ΑVΓΟVϹΤΟϹ

Design

Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass, holding spear over left shoulder with left hand.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_1553_R225 🔍

Legend

ΕΠΙ · ΑΙΛ · ΠΟΝ-ΤΙΚ-ΟV · ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι//ΩΝ

Design

Veiled Demeter standing facing, head left, wearing corn wreath, between two large torches, holding two ears of corn in raised right hand, left resting on long torch; in front, horse grazing right, bound to the right torch.
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Persons

Sitter

Caracalla 🔍 ❐

Magistrate

Aelius Ponticus (2) 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

7 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

34 mm

Weight

20.84 g

Axis

12

Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1553, Kophgn Byzanz 513

Public Commentary

Identification of the animal as horse is doubtful.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 78, nr. 1553, pl. 85, pic. 1553  ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen p. 10, nr. 513  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 78, nr. 1553, pl. 85, pic. 1553  ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen p. 10, nr. 513  ❐

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cn coin 789, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_789 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/21]

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