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cn coin 21706

Connected to Type

CN Type 2840 🔍

Mint
Adramyttion 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹЄ(Β) ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ЄΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑVΡ(Η) ΓΑΙΟV Β ΝЄ ΑΔΡΑΜVΤΗΝΩΝ
Design
Asclepius standing right, holding serpent-staff in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
6.60 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 41766300

Provenience: Fonds général.46

Public Commentary

Unterschiedliche Schreibweise von ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟC in der Vs.-Legende.

Citation

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 232, nr. 237b  ❐

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 55, nr. 164,2  ❐

Calomino, RPC VI: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. VI: From Elagabalus to Maximinus Thrax (AD 218–238). online nr. 4133.3  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 67, pl. 4  ❐

Literature

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 54-55, nr. 161-166 ❐

Calomino, RPC VI: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. VI: From Elagabalus to Maximinus Thrax (AD 218–238). online nr. 4133-4134 ❐

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 232, nr. 234-241 ❐

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cn coin 21706, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21706 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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