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cn coin 2256

Connected to Type

CN Type 1490 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

54-68 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0244_V_B 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΝΕΡΩΝ · ΚΑΙϹΑΡ · ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Nero, right. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0244_R244 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩΝ
Design
Hera (Samios) standing right on prow, right, high kalathos, veil and long garment; holding with both hands pelleted fillets. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Nero 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
8.84 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: 244, London 14

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 132, nr. 244, pl. 10. 11, pic. 244  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 148, nr. 14  ❐

Gardner, Samos and Samian coins, London 1882 p. 279, pl. 12, pic. 14  ❐

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. 399, nr. 1177  ❐

Sestini, Lettere e dissertazioni numismatiche sopra alcune medaglie rare della collezione Ainstieana, Livorno 1790 p. 94, nr. 2  ❐

Drexler, Der Cultus der aegyptischen Gottheiten in den Donauländern, Leipzig 1890 p. 110, nr. 1 g  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 132, nr. 243-248, pl. 10, 11 ❐

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. 319, nr. 1751 ❐

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