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cn coin 1031

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CN Type 8510 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1768_V219 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Severus Alexander, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1768_R417 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ ΦΡΟΝ ⠁ ΒVΖ-ΑΝΤΙ//ΩΝ
Design
Bear standing right, head upwards.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 18 mm
Weight
4.07 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 471

Provenience: Fonds général 471

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1768, Paris 471

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 110, nr. 1768.3  ❐

Robert, Monuments de gladiateurs dans l'orient grec 7, 1949 pl. 10, pic. 5  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 110, nr. 1768, pl. 103, pic. 1768/4 ❐

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

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cn coin 1031, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1031 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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