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cn coin 20412

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CN Type 8283 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV · Κ Μ Α · ϹЄ · ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Ϲ-ΗϹ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Hero and Leander: to left, nude Leander swimming right; above, Eros, holding torch; to right, Hero standing on top of tower, holding lamp in his right hand. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
13.49 g
Axis
1
Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1270 = H 6637

Provenience: Herbert Wellhöfer 2003 - 2016

Citation

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 323, nr. 2987  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 323, nr. 2987 ❐

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cn coin 20412, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20412 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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