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cn coin 2091

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CN Type 1097 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

end 1.-middle 2. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0118_V118 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and hair falling in long curls on neck and shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0118_R118 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩΝ
Design
Veiled Demeter standing facing, head left, wearing corn wreath and long garment, holding two ears of corn in right hand, left resting on sceptre. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
Perinthus: pseudo-autonomous group 2.2 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
5.98 g
Axis
6
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8860

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 118, Wien 8860

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 109, nr. 118.7, pl. 5, pic. 118/7  ❐

Eckhel, Numi veteres anecdoti ex museis Caesareo Vindobonensi, Florentino magni ducis Etruriae, Granelliano nunc Caesareo, Vitzaiano, Festeticsiano, Savorgnano Veneto, aliisque, Viennae Austriae 1775 p. 59, pl. 5, pic. 5  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 398, nr. 1171  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 109, nr. 118-119, pl. 5 ❐

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London :  Paris 2015 p. 92, nr. 721, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/721/ ❐

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cn coin 2091, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2091 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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