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cn coin 801

Connected to Type
CN Type 8050 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 212-217 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1563_V120 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ - 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_1564_R235 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Α*ΝΤ*ΩΝΙ-ΝΙΑ ᛈΕΒΑᛈΤΑ Β-VΖΑ*ΝΤ*ΙΩΝ
Design
Three nude athletes, the middle and right one standing facing, head left, raising right arms, the right, holding palm branch in left arm; opposite of them third athlete standing right, seen from behind, raising right arm, holding palm branch in left arm; between him and the other two a vessel.
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Persons
Sitter
Caracalla 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
19.61 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: 1564, London, Kat. 102,78 Z.f.N. 39,282,16
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1564, pl. 85, pic. 1564 
Gaebler, Die Losurne in der Agonistik, 1929 p. 282, nr. 16, pl. 2, pic. 11 
Eckhel et al., Musei Franciani Descriptio, Lipsiae 1781 p. 140, nr. 5 
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 102, nr. 78 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1564, pl. 85, pic. 1564  
Gaebler, Die Losurne in der Agonistik, 1929 p. 282, nr. 16, pl. 2, pic. 11  
Eckhel et al., Musei Franciani Descriptio, Lipsiae 1781 p. 140, nr. 5  
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 102, nr. 78  
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cn coin 801, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_801 [Last downloaded: 2025/02/18]
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