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cn coin 16691

Connected to Type

CN Type 385 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

117-138 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑ Α-ΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΔΙϹ ϹΕΒ
Design
Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, drapery on left shoulder.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙ-ΑΝΩΝ
Design
Apollo standing facing, head left, wearing long garment, holding plectrum in outstretched right hand and lyre with left hand on a column to his left.
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Persons

Sitter: Hadrian 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
18.53 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 159, 8. Dezember 2014, Lot-Nr. 454.

Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 398, nr. 5-6b, pl. 131, pic. 5-6b  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 345, nr. 4144 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 398, nr. 5-6b, pl. 131, pic. 5-6b ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 345, nr. 4144 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 398, nr. 5-6b, pl. 131, pic. 5-6b ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 345, nr. 4144 ❐

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cn coin 16691, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_16691 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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