cn coin 255
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cn coin 255

Connected to Type

CN Type 6965 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 102-116 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1362_V35 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΠΛΩΤΕΙΝΑΝ - ᛈΕΒΑᛈΤΗΝ
Design
Diademed and draped bust of Plotina, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1361_R47 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ Γ
Design
Dolphin swimming right; between two tunnies swimming left.
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Persons

Authority: Trajan 🔍  

Sitter: Plotina 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
8.24 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 32

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1362, Oxf 32

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1070

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 49, nr. 1362  ❐

Literature

Naster, La collection Lucien de Hirsch, Brüssel 1959 nr. 885, pl. 47 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 49, nr. 1361-1365, pl. 68 ❐

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London :  Paris 2015 nr. 1070 ❐

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