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cn coin 12984

Connected to Type

CN Type 2406 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

54-68 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P
Design
Laureate head of Nero, right. Border of dots.
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Countermark
ΓΑΛ.ΚΑΙ; rectangular
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse S-C
Design
Triumphal arch with garland between pillars surmounted by statuary group; emperor (Nero) in facing quadriga, escorted by Nike on left, standing facing, holding uncertain object in right hand and Pax on right, standing facing, holding cornucopia? in left arm; flanked by two soldiers on each column on both sides of the arch; Mars in niche on left side of arch.
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Persons

Sitter: Nero 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
sestertius 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
25.89 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 2009.229

Provenience: Fonds général; Ex Rauch Sommerauktion 2009, 17 Septembre 2009, I – Antike, lot 640; Achat P.-F. Jacquier

Literature

Howgego, Greek Imperial Countermarks: Studies in the Provincial Coinage of the Roman Empire, London 1985 p. 260, nr. 527 ❐

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 p. 320, nr. 1758 ❐

Macdowall, Two Roman countermarks of A.D. 68, 1960 p. 107, nr. 1, pl. 7, pic. 3 ❐

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 p. 320, nr. 1758, pl. 84 ❐

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cn coin 12984, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12984 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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