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cn coin 317

Connected to Type

CN Type 7010 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 164-169 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1418_V69 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ
Design
Draped bust of Faustina II, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1419_R100 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ ΑΝΘΟV
Design
Dolphin swimming right between two tunnies.
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Persons

Sitter: Faustina II. 🔍  

Magistrate: Anthos 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
10.06 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 162

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1419, London 162

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8698

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 58, nr. 1419, pl. 73, pic. 1419  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 58, nr. 1418-1419 ❐

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. 8698 ❐

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cn coin 317, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_317 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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