cn coin 2980
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cn coin 2980

Connected to Type

CN Type 2623 🔍

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_0611_R611 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠЄΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ - ΝЄΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles advancing left, head right, lion skin over shoulder, drawing arrow with right hand from quiver at back, holding bow in outstretched left hand; at right, three Stymphalian birds falling. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
42 mm
Weight
37.26 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Leake

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 611, Leake Caracalla SNg 31, 1753

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 201, nr. 611, pl. 36, pic. 611  ❐

British Academy, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : [England] / The British Academy Vol. 4: Fitzwilliam Museum: Leake and general collections, London 1972 nr. 1753, pl. 31  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 201, nr. 611, pl. 36 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 41, nr. 261 ❐

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cn coin 2980, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2980 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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