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cn coin 982

Connected to Type
CN Type 8441 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Date
c. 222-235 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1737_V205 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ *ΑV*Γ
Design
Radiate bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1737_R392 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ
Design
Emperor (Severus Alexander) in military attire riding right on horseback, wearing cuirass, fluttering paludamentum and boots, brandishing transverse spear in raised right hand towards lion running right, head left.
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Persons
Sitter
Severus Alexander 🔍 ❐
Magistrate
Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍
Magistrate
Aelia Festa 🔍 ❐
Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍 ❐
Diameter
37 mm
Weight
34.55 g
Axis
7
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: 1737, London 50
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 103, nr. 1737, pl. 100, pic. 1737  ❐
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 93  ❐
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a  ❐
Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 44, pic. 5  ❐
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 103, nr. 1737, pl. 100, pic. 1737  ❐
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 93  ❐
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a  ❐
Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 44, pic. 5  ❐
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cn coin 982, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_982 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]
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