cn coin 20997
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cn coin 20997

Connected to Type

CN Type 4682 🔍

Mint
Nikopolis ad Istrum 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Κ Μ ΑV[Ρ?] ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙ ΠΡΟϹ ΙϹΤΡ
Design
Nude Eros in attitude of Thanatos standing right, resting on torch.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13.5 mm / Min: 13.3 mm
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Br. Mus. 37, 6, 1592, 1592/1

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 414, nr. 1592.1 ❐

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cn coin 20997, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20997 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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