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cn coin 23950

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CN Type 19101 🔍

Mint
Alexandria Troas 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

222–235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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M (AV) S(E) ALEXANDRV
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
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COL ALE(XA) TRO(A)
Design
She-wolf standing right, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
7.22 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41768547

Provenience: Fonds général.353

Literature

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 25, nr. 131 ❐

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 nr. A344 ❐

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cn coin 23950, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_23950 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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