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cn coin 3659

Connected to Type

CN Type 1494 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

39/40-62 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0257_V_B 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΟΚΤΑΟΥΙΑ - ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ
Design
Diademed and draped bust of Octavia, right, with "melon coiffure", a plait and a long curl falling. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0257_R257 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΡΑ ΠΕ-ΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ
Design
Veiled Hera (Samios) standing left, wearing kalathos, resting both hands on pelleted fillets.
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Persons

Sitter: Octavia 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
11.02 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18237358

Provenience: Auf Kartelle Fox: Northwick Sale Lot 513.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 257, Berlin 22

Citation

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 1755,3  ❐

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 134, nr. 257.1, pl. 11, pic. 257/1  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 210, nr. 22  ❐

Drexler, Der Cultus der aegyptischen Gottheiten in den Donauländern, Leipzig 1890 p. 110, nr. 1g  ❐

Gardner, Samos and Samian coins, London 1882 p. 279, nr. 234  ❐

Sotheby, Catalogue of the Northwick collection 1 = Auktionskatalog Sotheby, London Dezember 1859, London 1859 nr. 513  ❐

Overbeck, Griechische Kunstmythologie 2. Hera, Poseidon, Demeter und Kora, Leipzig 1873 pl. 1, pic. 10  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 134, nr. 255-258, pl. 11 ❐

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 p. 320, nr. 1755 ❐

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