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cn coin 3112

Connected to Type

CN Type 1559 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Biz_137_V_C 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟVΛ - ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, left, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Biz_137_R137 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
City view of Bizye walls with ten towers and half-opened city gate, flanked by two towers; above, gallery of seven arches with statues inside; surmounted by quadriga to right flanked by two figures; to left of the gate, relief of Thracian rider, to right, relief of the three Charites (or Nymphs?); inside the wall, two basilicae, three victory columns with statues and three other buildings.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Weight
40.62 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18200684

Provenience: Löbbecke 6344.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Dubl Blin 137C

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 73, nr. 137, pl. 23, pic. 137  ❐

Specht, Ein Medaillon des Philippus Arabs aus Bizye, Thrakien. 41,3, 2001 p. 62 ff.  ❐

Löbbecke, Griechische Münzen aus meiner Sammlung 21, 1898 p. 254 ff., pl. 8, pic. 5  ❐

Literature

Johnston, The Denominational Systems of the Greek Imperials of Bizye in Thrace 143, 1983 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 131, nr. 1521 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 244, nr. 19 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 73, nr. 137 ❐

Löbbecke, Griechische Münzen aus meiner Sammlung 21, 1898 p. 254, pl. 8, pic. 5 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 244, nr. 19, pl. 33 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 131, nr. 1521 ❐

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