cn coin 301
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cn coin 301

Connected to Type

CN Type 7011 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 175 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1402_V59 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Μ · ΑVΡ · - ΑΝΤΟΝЄΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1403_R86 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠΙ ΜΕΜΜΙ - ΜΑΡ-ΚΟV ΗΡΩΟϹ ΤΟ Β / i.f.u. ΒΥ/ΖΑΝ/ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Two torches; inbetween, above, modius containing two poppies and two ears of corn.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Memmius Marcus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30.6 mm / Min: 30 mm
Weight
13.91 g
Axis
6
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8497

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1403, Wien 8497

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8690

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 55, nr. 1403.2, pl. 71, pic. 1403/2  ❐

Tiepolo and Theupolus, Musei Theupoli Antiqua Numismata, Venetiis 1736 nr. 899  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 55, nr. 1402-1403, pl. 71 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8690 ❐

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cn coin 301, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_301 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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