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cn coin 2165

Connected to Type

CN Type 1355 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 138-192 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0169_V169 🔍
Design
Veiled and draped bust of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath; in front two poppies.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0174_R174 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙ-ΩΝ
Design
Cista mystica with half-open lid on the right, out of which serpent creeps right.
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Metrology
Denomination
Perinthus: pseudo-autonomous group 3.5 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.12 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: 174, Br. M. 147,4

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 118, nr. 174, pl. 7, pic. 174  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 147, nr. 4  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 117-118, nr. 169-179, pl. 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. 3894, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3894/ ❐

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cn coin 2165, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2165 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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