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cn coin 12725

Connected to Type

CN Type 261 🔍

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 Ϲ/ЄΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in right hand, caduceus and chlamys in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

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

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

Provenience: Fonds général 873

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 428, nr. 294-297, pl. 146, pic. 294-297 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 428, nr. 294-297, pl. 146, pic. 294-297 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 355, nr. 4241 ❐

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cn coin 12725, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12725 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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