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cn coin 1006

Connected to Type

CN Type 8499 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1754_V214 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ ϹΕVΗ ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1754_R403 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ
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
Max: 35 mm / Min: 32 mm
Weight
20.00 g
Axis
8
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 457

Provenience: Fonds général 457

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1754, Paris 457

Citation

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

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. 267, nr. 387  ❐

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 1006, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1006 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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