cn coin 8985
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cn coin 8985

Connected to Type

CN Type 1319 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

138-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖV-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Silenus standing facing, head right, with tail behind, stepping right, holding wineskin on his shoulders in both hands from which he pours wine into large volute krater to right on ground in front of him.
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Metrology
Denomination
One and one half 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 192

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 166.4 192 Paris

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 166.4  ❐

Literature

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 9311 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 17-22 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 9311 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 166-167 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 17-22, pl. 2 ❐

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cn coin 8985, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8985 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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