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cn coin 990

Connected to Type
CN Type 8447 🔍
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_1742_R397 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ / i.f.o. ϹΕΒΑ/ϹΤΑ
Design
Laureate emperor standing right, wearing toga capite velato and City goddess standing facing, head left, wearing mural crown, holding cornucopia in left arm; each holding a patera in outstretched right hand over an agonistic table in the middle, surmounted by prize crown with two palm branches.
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Persons
Sitter
Severus Alexander 🔍 ❐
Magistrate
Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍
Magistrate
Aelia Festa 🔍 ❐
Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍 ❐
Diameter
36 mm
Weight
33.30 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: 1742, London 191
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 105, nr. 1742.1  ❐
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a  ❐
Gaebler, Die Losurne in der Agonistik, 1929 p. 299, nr. F 1  ❐
Glendining & Co., Sammlung R. C. Lockett 2, London 1958 p. 82, nr. 1538  ❐
Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 42  ❐
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 105, nr. 1742, pl. 100, pic. 1742/2  ❐
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. 42  ❐
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cn coin 990, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_990 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]
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