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cn coin 1008

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CN Type 8501 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1756_V216 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ 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_1756_R405 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Ε · ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ · Κ · ΦΗϹΤΗϹ · ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nike standing facing, holding wreath in right outstretched hand and palm branch in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
16.92 g
Owner

Biblioteca Academiei Române, Cabinetul de numismatică, Bukarest, ro ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1130/53470

Provenience: Sammlung C. Bolliac

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1756, Buk. Bibl. 157

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 108, nr. 1756.1, pl. 102, pic. 1756/1  ❐

Iliescu et al., Catalogul monetelor grecesti. I. Thracia, Bucuresti, Bukarest nr. 157  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 108, nr. 1756, pl. 102, pic. 1756/1 ❐

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