cn coin 796

Connected to Type

CN Type 8045 🔍

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_1559_R231 🔍

Legend

ΕΠ · ΑΙ · ΠΟ*ΝΤ*Ι-ΚΟV - ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ*

Design

Two torches; on ground inbetween, modius with four ears of corn and a poppy.
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Persons

Sitter

Caracalla 🔍 ❐

Magistrate

Aelius Ponticus (2) 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

7 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

31 mm

Weight

16.6 g

Axis

12

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: 1559, London 177

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1559, pl. 85, pic. 1559  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 45, nr. 16  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 103, nr. 82  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 78-79, nr. 1557-1561.1563, pl. 85  ❐

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cn coin 796, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_796 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/05]

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