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cn coin 983

Connected to Type
CN Type 8442 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Date
c. 222-235 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1738_V206 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑVΡ · ϹΕV - ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ⠁ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Severus Alexander, left, wearing cuirass and plaudamentum; spear in hidden right hand; shield on his left shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1738_R393 🔍
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
6 unit 🔍 ❐
Material
bronze  🔍 ❐
Diameter
Max: 38 mm / Min: 35 mm
Weight
27.61 g
Owner
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1738, Hunter H B 32
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 103, nr. 1738.2, pl. 100, pic. 1738/2  ❐
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 103, nr. 47, pl. 21a  ❐
Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 397, nr. 32  ❐
Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 44  ❐
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 103, nr. 1738, pl. 100, pic. 1738  ❐
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 103, nr. 47, pl. 21a  ❐
Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 44  ❐
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cn coin 983, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_983 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]
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