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cn coin 1055

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CN Type 8527 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1785_V225 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΙΟVΛΙΑ ΜΑΜΑΙΑ ΑVΓ
Design
Draped bust of Julia Mamaea, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1785_R433 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing right, right arm behind back, left arm holding lion skin and resting on club set on rock. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Iulia Mamaea 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
5.97 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 481

Provenience: Fonds général 481

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1785, Paris 481

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 112, nr. 1785.2  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 nr. 142  ❐

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. 271, nr. 411  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 112, nr. 1785, pl. 104, pic. 1785 ❐

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cn coin 1055, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1055 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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