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cn coin 2977

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CN Type 2622 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

197-217 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_0610_R610 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠЄΡΙΝΘΙ-ΩΝ ΝЄΩΚΟΡ//ΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing facing, crowning himself with right hand, holding club and lion skin in left; at left, tree on which hang bow and quiver; lighted and garlanded altar to right.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
39 mm
Weight
33.32 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 950

Provenience: Fonds général 1159

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 610, Paris 950

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 201, nr. 610.4  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 405, nr. 283  ❐

Gessner, Numismata antiqua imperatorum Romanorum, latina et graeca ..., Tiguri 1738 pl. 143, pic. 20  ❐

Beger, Numismata Moduli Maximi vulgo medaigloni ex Cimeliarcho Ludovici XIV. Potentissimi Galliarum Monarchae ad exemplar Parisiense servare et ordine Numismatum Numero XLI Tabellarum in gratam et usum Studiosae Antiquitatum Iuventutis recusa., Eleutheropoli 1704 pl. 21, pic. 3  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 201, nr. 610, pl. 34,36 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 40, nr. 260 ❐

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cn coin 2977, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2977 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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