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cn coin 15426

Connected to Type

CN Type 3502 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Κ Μ ΑV С ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟС
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΒVΔΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Poseidon standing right, left foot on rock, right arm resting on trident and holding dolphin in left. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
6.35 g
Axis
7
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1888, 1102.20

Provenience: ex Lawson

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 814 [Alex.], c. 7,62

Citation

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 7, nr. 62  ❐

Calomino, RPC VI: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. VI: From Elagabalus to Maximinus Thrax (AD 218–238). online nr. 3916 (1)  ❐

Literature

Calomino, RPC VI: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. VI: From Elagabalus to Maximinus Thrax (AD 218–238). online nr. 3916 ❐

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cn coin 15426, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15426 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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