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cn coin 27559

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CN Type 8726 🔍

Mint
Philippopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

161-176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΦΑVϹΤΕΙΝΑ - ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Design
Draped bust of Faustina II, right, wearing hair knot. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΦΙΛΙΠΠ-Ο-Π-ΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Veiled Demeter standing facing, holding torch in each hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Faustina II. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 25 mm / Min: 23.5 mm
Weight
10.12 g
Axis
11
Owner

Coll. B. Awianowicz, Toruń, pl

Provenience: InAsta S.p.a. 77 (12.2018) 228

Literature

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 123, nr. IX.3.5 ❐

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. 7497 (But two torches.)  ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 110, nr. 882 ❐

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cn coin 27559, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27559 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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