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cn coin 12723

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CN Type 258 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ ΩΤ // ϹЄΒ*ΗΡ*Α / ϹЄ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, right, wearing laurel wreath, cuirass and paludamentum, and of Otacilia Severa, left, wearing stephane and drapery.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Serapis standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding drapery and long sceptre in left hand; holding sceptre beside his body.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
15.14 g
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 871

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 426, nr. 272-275 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 426-428, nr. 272-275, 278-281, pl. 145, 146, pic. 272-275, 278-281 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4265, 4267 ❐

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cn coin 12723, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12723 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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