cn coin 20340
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cn coin 20340

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CN Type 4149 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 27 BC-14 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bare head of Augustus, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Κ-Υ/エ-Ι
Design
Flaming torch in oak-wreath.
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Persons

Sitter: Augustus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
3.30 g
Axis
12
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb

Owner Inventory No.: 28

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Public Commentary

Die Identifizierung des Vorderseitenporträts mit Augustus ist nicht vollständig gesichert, sondern beruht allein auf der Beurteilung der Physiognomie des Dargestellten.

Citation

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 2244 

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 nr. 1204, pl. 84 

Literature

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 2244

Jodin, Portraits impériaux et dénominations à Cyzique. D'Auguste à Hadrien. 154, 1999 p. 138, nr. 1

Koker, The coins from the 1954 excavation at Daskyleion. 176, 2016 p. 433, nr. 16

Koker, The Roman Provincial, Roman Imperial, Byzantine, Medieval and Islamic Coins from the 1952-3 Excavations at Cyzicus. 167, 2007 p. 306, nr. 2-3

Maffre, La cité de Cyzique et Auguste en leur temps., Bordeaux 2017 p. 244, nr. 2

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 2244

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 2244

Jodin, Portraits impériaux et dénominations à Cyzique. D'Auguste à Hadrien. 154, 1999 p. 138, nr. 1

Koker, The coins from the 1954 excavation at Daskyleion. 176, 2016 p. 433, nr. 16

Koker, The Roman Provincial, Roman Imperial, Byzantine, Medieval and Islamic Coins from the 1952-3 Excavations at Cyzicus. 167, 2007 p. 306, nr. 2-3

Maffre, La cité de Cyzique et Auguste en leur temps., Bordeaux 2017 p. 244, nr. 2

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cn coin 20340, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20340 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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