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cn coin 7982

Connected to Type
CN Type 219 🔍
Mint
Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology
Date
244-247 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡ ΙΟVΛΙΟϹ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ // ΚΑΙϹ*ΑΡ*
Design
Confronting busts of Philippus iunior, wearing paludamentum and of Serapis, draped and wearing kalathos.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕᛈΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Zeus standing left, head right, cloak over left shoulder, holding patera in outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand; at his feet, left, eagle standing left, head right, wings half spread.
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Persons
Sitter
Philippus iunior 🔍 ❐
Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍 ❐
Material
bronze  🔍 ❐
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
10.68 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: BM London 85
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, annot. Patera als Blitzbündel interpretiert.  ❐
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 7982, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7982 [Last downloaded: 2026/01/24]
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