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cn coin 1018

Connected to Type

CN Type 8505 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1761_V218 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1763_R412 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Prow with naval ram, right, in waters. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
7.10 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 466

Provenience: Fonds général 466

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1763, Paris 466

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 109, nr. 1763.2, pl. 103, pic. 1763/2  ❐

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. 269, nr. 397  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 21b  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 108-109, nr. 1761-1763, pl. 103, pic. 1761-1763 ❐

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