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cn coin 296

Connected to Type

CN Type 7009 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 164-169 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1399_V56 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡΗ - ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑΡΜ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1399_R82 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ - ΑΝΘΟV ΝΙΚΩ
Design
Nike standing facing, head left, holding wreath in lowered right hand and palm branch in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Magistrate: Anthos 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 29.8 mm / Min: 29 mm
Weight
18.84 g
Axis
6
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8496

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1399, Wien 46

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8687

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 54, nr. 1399, pl. 71, pic. 1399  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 34, nr. 8  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 54, nr. 1399, pl. 71, pic. 1399 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 34, nr. 8 ❐

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. 8687 ❐

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cn coin 296, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_296 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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