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cn coin 2956

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CN Type 2609 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0591_V_A 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ · Π · ΑVΓΟVϹΤΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of youthful Caracalla, right.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0592_R592 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠЄΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ - *ΝЄ*-ΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Nude athlete standing facing, head right, crowning himself with right hand, holding palm branch in left arm. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
5.50 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: 592, London 56

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 196, nr. 592, pl. 34, pic. 592  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 154, nr. 45  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 196-197, nr. 592-593 ❐

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cn coin 2956, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2956 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/07]

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