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cn coin 15365

Connected to Type

CN Type 3454 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

193-211 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ϹЄΠΤΙΜ ϹЄΟVΗΡΟϹ ΠЄΡΤ
Design
Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΡΧ ΦΑ - ΠΡΟΚΛΟV // ΑΒVΔΗΝΩ/Ν
Design
Warrior in military dress standing right at prow of galley, looking back, holding spear in left hand and extending his right hand; warrior standing behind him, bust of Athena on acrostolium and another one behind; on a second galley, warrior with helmet and shild seated right; to left, herald blowing trumpet on high tower. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Septimius Severus 🔍  

Archon: Proklos (I) 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
39 mm
Weight
21.98 g
Axis
6
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2002.24

Provenience: ex CNG auction, Triton V, New York, January 15-16, 2002, lot 1716; purchased at Triton V on behalf of MFA by Frank L. Kovacs; February 27, 2002: purchased by MFA from Frank L. Kovacs

Reproduction Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [us] ❐

Literature

Venuti, Antiqua numismata maximi moduli aurea, argentea, aerea: ex Museo Alexander S.R.E. Card. Albani in Vaticanam Bibliothecam a Clemente XII. Pont. Opt. Max, Romae 1739 p. 101, pl. L, pic. 1 ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 637, nr. 53 ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Beiträge zur Erklärung griechischer Münztypen 5, 1910 p. 30-31, nr. 22, pl. II, pic. 19 ❐

Dahmen, The legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman coins, New York 2007 p. 83, annot. 189 ❐

Kraft, Das System der kaiserzeitlichen Münzprägung in Kleinasien: Materialien und Entwürfe, Berlin 1972 p. 160, pl. 56, pic. 21 ❐

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cn coin 15365, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15365 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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