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cn coin 2159

Connected to Type

CN Type 1350 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

138-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0167_V167 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, one curl falling on his right shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0168_R168 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing right, right arm behind back, left arm holding lion skin and resting on club set on rock. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
Perinthus: pseudo-autonomous group 3.4 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
5.71 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 168, BM 8

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 117, nr. 168, pl. 7, pic. 168  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 148, nr. 8  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 116-117, nr. 161-168, pl. 6-7 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8673, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8673/ ❐

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cn coin 2159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2159 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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