cn coin 212
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cn coin 212

Connected to Type

CN Type 7080 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 37-41 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1314_V4 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΓΑΙΟΥ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΥ
Design
Bare head of Caligula, left. Border of dots.
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Countermark
Laureate male head to r.; round.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1314_R6 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ/ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Prow with naval ram, left. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Caligula 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20.2 mm / Min: 20 mm
Weight
5.28 g
Axis
9
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8491

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1314, Wien Byz

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 44, nr. 1314, pl. 63, pic. 1314  ❐

Eckhel, Catalogus musei caesarei Vindobonensis numorum veterum, Wien 1779 p. 66, nr. 4  ❐

Fröhlich and Foy-Vaillant, Quatuor tentamina in re numoria vetere, Wien 1750 p. 161, nr. 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. 244, nr. 239  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 44, nr. 1313-1314, pl. 63, pic. 1310 ❐

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 p. 322, nr. 1781 ❐

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