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cn coin 1088

Connected to Type

CN Type 7127 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1808_V242 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Γ ΒΕΙΒ ΟVΟΛΟᛈᛈΙΑΝΟᛈ Α
Design
Laureate bust of Volusian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1810_R457 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΙᛈΑVΡΙΚΟV ΒVΖΑΝΤ-Ι//Ν<Ω>
Design
Dolphin swimming right; between two tunnies swimming left.
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Persons

Sitter: Volusianus 🔍  

Magistrate: Isauricus 🔍

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

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1810, Hunter, H B 35

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/172

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 118, nr. 1810, pl. 107, pic. 1810  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 49, nr. 24b  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 397, nr. 35  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 118, nr. 1808-1810, pl. 107 ❐

Pellerin, Mélange de diverses médailles 1.2. Médailles impériales en or, en argent et en bronze, Paris 1765 p. 216 ❐

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. 273, nr. 425 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 49, nr. 24b ❐

Tanini, Numismatum Imperatorum Romanorum a Traiano Decio ad Constantinum Draconem, Romae 1791 p. 38 ❐

Amandry et al., RPC IX: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. IX: From Trajan Decius to Uranius Antonius (Ad 249-254), London : Paris 2016 nr. 172 ❐

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cn coin 1088, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1088 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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