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cn coin 12969

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CN Type 1355 🔍

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Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 138-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled and draped bust of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath; in front two poppies.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙ-ΩΝ
Design
Cista mystica with half-open lid on the right, out of which serpent creeps right.
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Metrology
Denomination
Perinthus: pseudo-autonomous group 3.5 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.59 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 1069; Ex coll. Pellerin 1776

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 117, nr. 170.3  ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 3894.4, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3894/4/  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 117-118, nr. 169-179, pl. 7 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 3894, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3894/ ❐

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cn coin 12969, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12969 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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