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cn coin 12728

Connected to Type

CN Type 443 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ Ω//Τ ϹΕΒ*ΗΡ*Α / ϹΕΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑ-ΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Tyche Poleos standing facing, head left, wearing chiton and kalathos, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left arm. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

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

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

Provenience: Fonds général 876; RF 2279A

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4271 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 428, nr. 286-288 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 428, nr. 286-288, pl. 146, pic. 286-288 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4271 ❐

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cn coin 12728, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12728 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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