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cn coin 2291

Connected to Type

CN Type 1494 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

39/40-62 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0255_V_A 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΟΚΤΑΟΥΙΑ - ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ
Design
Diademed and draped bust of Octavia, right, with "melon coiffure", a plait and a long curl falling. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0255_R255 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΡΑ ΠΕ-ΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ
Design
Veiled Hera (Samios) standing left, wearing kalathos, resting both hands on pelleted fillets.
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Persons

Sitter: Octavia 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
9.40 g
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1001 Taf. 5

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 255, Athen 66

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 134, nr. 255, pl. 11, pic. 255  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 134, nr. 255-258, pl. 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. 320, nr. 1755 ❐

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cn coin 2291, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2291 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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