cn coin 13215

Connected to Type

CN Type 7565 🔍

Mint
Philippopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

160-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ ΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ΑΝΤΟΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΓΕ ΓΑΡΓΙΛΙ ΑΝΤΙΚΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛ(Ε)ΙΤΩΝ
Design
Bearded river-god (Hebros) reclining left, holding branch?, resting on water-urn.
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Persons

Sitter: Antoninus Pius 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Lucius Pullaienus Gargilius Antiquus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Weight
21.05 g
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 1279

Public Commentary

Die Ikonographie des Flussgottattributs in der Rechten ist umstritten. Meines Erachtens sieht es aber eher als ein Zweig, denn als ein Schilfrohr aus, womit ich auch der gängigen Literatur (Varbanov; RPC) folge.

Literature

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. 7416

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 60-62, nr. VI.28.3

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 93, 94, nr. 676-677, 692

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. 7416

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 60-62, nr. VI.28.3

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 93, 94, nr. 676-677, 692

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cn coin 13215, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13215 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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