cn coin 2981
cn coin 2981-0
cn coin 2981-1
cn coin 2981-2
cn coin 2981-3
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 2981

Connected to Type

CN Type 2624 🔍

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.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Per_0612_R612 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ - ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing right, pushing Cerynean hind with his right knee at its back and grasping it by the antlers. Border of dots.
go to the NLP result of this description
Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
44.1 mm
Weight
54.39 g
Axis
7
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8908

Provenience: 1729, Carthäuser

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 612, Wien Perinthus Nr.45, MS II 418,1285

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 201, nr. 612, pl. 36, pic. 612  ❐

Fröhlich et al., Numismata cimelii Caesarei Regii Austriaci Vindobonensis ..., Vindobonae 1755 nr. 14, pl. 16, pic. 1  ❐

Eckhel, Catalogus musei caesarei Vindobonensis numorum veterum, Wien 1779 p. 75, nr. 4  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.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, 1822 p. 418, nr. 1284  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 201, nr. 612, pl. 36 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 41, nr. 262 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 2981, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2981 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us