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cn coin 15423

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Region: Troas  

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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IMP CI M VIP SEV ALEXANDRO AVG (sic)
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΒΥΔΗΝΩΝ
Design
Hero and Leander: to left, nude Leander swimming right; behind, cloak and sword; above, Eros, holding torch; to right, Hero standing on top of tower, holding lamp.
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Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
36 mm
Weight
25.81 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 40 (04.06.2014) 354; ex Slg. H. von Aulock

Reproduction Owner

commerce / im Handel, , []

Public Commentary

MMAG 40 (4.06.2014) 354

Citation

Calomino, RPC VI: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. VI: From Elagabalus to Maximinus Thrax (AD 218–238). online nr. 3909 (5)  ❐

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7543  ❐

Franke, Kleinasien zur Römerzeit: griechisches Leben im Spiegel der Münzen, München 1968 p. 57, nr. 293  ❐

Calomino, Bilingual coins of Severus Alexander in the Eastern provinces 26, 2014 p. 201, nr. 1, pl. 58, pic. 1  ❐

Nollé, Creating borders and surpassing them: Myths of the Propontis region reflected by city coins, Istanbul p. 384, pic. 19  ❐

Literature

Calomino, Bilingual coins of Severus Alexander in the Eastern provinces 26, 2014 p. 201, nr. 1, pl. 58, pic. 1 ❐

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7543, pic. 7543 ❐

Franke, Kleinasien zur Römerzeit: griechisches Leben im Spiegel der Münzen, München 1968 p. 57, nr. 293, pic. 293 ❐

Kraft, Das System der kaiserzeitlichen Münzprägung in Kleinasien: Materialien und Entwürfe, Berlin 1972 p. 154, pl. 49, pic. 1 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/258527 ❐

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cn coin 15423, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15423 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/11]

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