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cn coin 2978

Connected to Type

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
40 mm
Weight
41.71 g
Owner

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Cabinet des Médailles, Brüssel, be ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Hirsch

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 610, Brüssel, Hirsch, Carac.

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 201, nr. 610.2, pl. 34, 36, pic. 610/2  ❐

Naster, La collection Lucien de Hirsch, Brüssel 1959 nr. 896, pl. 47  ❐

Tourneur, Zeus et Heraclès a Périnthe 72, 1920 p. 108  ❐

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 2978, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2978 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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