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cn coin 1108

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CN Type 8555 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 253-259 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1821_V246 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Π ΛΙΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ
Design
Laureate bust of Gallienus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1825_R470 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖ-ΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nike standing facing, head left, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and palm branch in left arm. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gallienus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
5.44 g
Axis
7
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1825, London 203

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 180, nr. 1825.2, pl. 108, pic. 1825/2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 106, nr. 103  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 120, nr. 1824-1826, pl. 108, pic. 1824-1826 ❐

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cn coin 1108, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1108 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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