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cn coin 1026

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CN Type 8508 🔍

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_1766_R415 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ - ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Athena standing facing, head left, wearing long garment and helmet, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left resting on sceptre.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.1 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
8.32 g
Axis
6
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8528

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1766, Wien 81

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 109, nr. 1766.3, pl. 103, pic. 1766/3  ❐

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. 396  ❐

Wiczay, Musei Hedervarii in Hungaria numos antiquos Graecos et Latinos descripsit, anecdotos vel parum cognitos etiam cupreis tabulis, Vindobonae 1814 nr. 2297, pl. 9, pic. 186  ❐

Sestini, Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano, Firenze 1828 p. 51, nr. 25  ❐

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. 109, nr. 1766, pl. 103, pic. 1766/3 ❐

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

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cn coin 1026, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1026 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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