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cn coin 2453

Connected to Type

CN Type 3552 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

98-117 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0357_V_E 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤΟΚΡ Ν ΤΡ-ΑΙΑΟϹ ϹΕΒ · ΓΡ . Δ
Design
Laureate head of Trajan, right. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0357_R357 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Dionysus standing facing, head left, wearing boots, holding cantharus in right hand over burning altar; pelleted and filleted thyrsus in left arm; at left, six-rayed star.
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Persons

Sitter: Trajan 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20.2 mm
Weight
5.28 g
Axis
6
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8879

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 357, Wien 8879 Per

Public Commentary

RPC III,7036/1.

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 150, nr. 357, pl. 18, pic. 357  ❐

Sestini, Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano, Firenze 1828 p. 66, nr. 10  ❐

Wiczay, Musei Hedervarii in Hungaria numos antiquos Graecos et Latinos descripsit, anecdotos vel parum cognitos etiam cupreis tabulis, Vindobonae 1814 nr. 2413  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 149-150, nr. 349, 357, pl. 18 ❐

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London :  Paris 2015 p. 90, nr. 700; 703, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/700/ ; http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/703/ ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/80961 ❐

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cn coin 2453, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2453 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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