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cn coin 28496

Connected to Type

CN Type 6420 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ Ϲ - Α-ΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Caracalla, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding shield and spear.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Cista mystica with half-open lid on the right, out of which serpent creeps right.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.51 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Pecunem | Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann), Gitbud & Naumann Auction 28, 1. Februar 2015, Lot-Nr. 229.

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 287, nr. 3479 (The avers is wrongly described by Varbanov?)  ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 287, nr. 3479 (The avers is wrongly described by Varbanov?)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 28496, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_28496 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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