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cn coin 1001

Connected to Type

CN Type 8499 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1751_V211 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1751_R402 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ Α*VΡ* ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ / i.f. ϹΕΒΑϹΤΑ
Design
Agonistic table, left, surmounted by prize crown with two palm branches, between two purses; below, amphora. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Owner

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Neapel, it ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: F6371

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1751, Neapel F 6371

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106, nr. 1751.1, pl. 101, pic. 1751/1  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 nr. 135  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 268, nr. 390  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106-107, nr. 1749-1754, pl. 101-102, pic. 1749-1754 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 521 ❐

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cn coin 1001, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1001 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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