cn coin 2959
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cn coin 2959

Connected to Type

CN Type 2610 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0595_V_B 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse · ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑVΡ . ϹЄΟV*ΗΡ* · - Α*ΝΤ*ΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass, aegis and spear over left shoulder; on breastplate gorgoneion.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0595_R595 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩ-Ν ΝΕ-ΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Turreted Tyche standing facing, head left, holding hexastyle temple in each outstretched hand; at her feet, lighted altar. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
41 mm
Weight
36.56 g
Axis
6
Owner

Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Münzsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 595, Frankfurt HM 667

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 197, nr. 595.2  ❐

Barckhaus and Glock, Numophylacium Glockianum, Sive Collectio MMMCCXCVI. Numorum, tam Graecorum quam Romanorum, &c. Ant. Phil. Glockii J.U. Lti, 1735 nr. 667  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 197-198, nr. 595-598, pl. 35 ❐

Burrell, Neokoroi: Greek cities and Roman emperors, Leiden ; Boston 2004 p. 238, nr. 10 ❐

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cn coin 2959, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2959 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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