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cn coin 305

Connected to Type

CN Type 7050 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1406_V61 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Μ · ΑVΡ · - ΑΝΤΟΝЄΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Marcus Aurelius, right, seen from front, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1406_R89 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠΙ · ΘЄΑϹ · - ΦΑVϹΤΙΝΗϹ / i.f.u. ΒV/ΖΑΝ/ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Two torches; inbetween, above, modius containing four ears of corn.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Faustina II. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
15.67 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235217

Provenience: Imhoof-Blumer 1900

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1406, B 169

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8692

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 55 f., nr. 1406, pl. 72, pic. 1406  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 34, nr. 10  ❐

Fröhner, Monnaies grecques de la collection Photiadès Pacha, Paris 1890 nr. 1482  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 55 f., nr. 1406-1407, pl. 72 ❐

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. 8692 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 34, nr. 10 ❐

Fröhner, Monnaies grecques de la collection Photiadès Pacha, Paris 1890 nr. 1482 ❐

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cn coin 305, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_305 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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