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cn coin 2987

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CN Type 2627 🔍

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Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0615_V_C 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑVΡ · ϹЄΟV*ΗΡ* - ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ · ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; with aegis on left shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0615_R615 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙ-Ν-ΘΙΩΝ // ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ / i.f. ΑΚΤΙΑ ΠΥΘΙΑ
Design
Two temples facing each other; at right, octastyle temple in perspective, left; at left, hexastyle temple in perspective, right, both on crepidoma; above, two prize crowns, each containing a palm branch.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
Diameter
44 mm
Weight
47.30 g
Axis
1
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 615, London 52

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 202, nr. 615.5, pl. 34, pic. 615/5 

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 153, nr. 52 

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 202-203, nr. 615-617

Burrell, Neokoroi: Greek cities and Roman emperors, Leiden ; Boston 2004 p. 238, nr. 13

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cn coin 2987, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2987 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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