cn coin 8989
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cn coin 8989

Connected to Type

CN Type 1322 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 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 ΒΙΖ-V-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Bald Silenus standing left, holding cantharus in right hand and wine-skin in left hand.
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Metrology
Denomination
One and one half 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Axis
7
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 8433

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Wien 8433 169.1

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 169.1  ❐

Literature

Bernhart, Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen: numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos, 1949 p. 161, nr. 1386 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 25-28a ❐

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. 4546 ❐

Bernhart, Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen: numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos, 1949 p. 161, nr. 1386 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 168-169 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 25-28a ❐

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cn coin 8989, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8989 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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