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cn coin 2550

Connected to Type

CN Type 2440 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

160-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0432_V_A 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡ - ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Design
Bust of bearded Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0432_R432 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ - ΓΑΡ // ΑΝΤΕΙΚΟV
Design
Nike standing right in biga, holding palm branch in left hand and reigns in both hands.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Lucius Pullaienus Gargilius Antiquus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
19.34 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: 432, London, 31

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 165, nr. 432.1, pl. 24, pic. 432.1  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 150, nr. 24  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 165, nr. 432, pl. 24 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8663, annot. temporary ❐

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cn coin 2550, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2550 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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