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cn coin 2189

Connected to Type

CN Type 1366 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 180-196 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0197_V197 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΗΡΑΚΛΗϹ - ΚΤΙϹΤΗϹ
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0197_R197 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩΝ
Design
Draped bust of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Metrology
Denomination
Perinthus: pseudo-autonomous group 4 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
6.43 g
Owner

Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein, Schlossmuseum, Münzkabinett, Gotha, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 197, Gotha Per.

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 121, nr. 197.1  (There Apollo instead of Dionysus.)  ❐

Rathgeber, Thrakische Münzen des Herzogl. Münzkabinets zu Gotha 5, 1838 p. 81, nr. 2  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 121, nr. 197-201, pl. 8 (Schönert -Geiß interprets Dionysus as Apollo (Corpus No. 197). In the next numbers (Corpus No. 198-201) she sees a bow before Dionysus, but not recognizable here.)  ❐

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cn coin 2189, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2189 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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