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cn coin 379

Connected to Type

CN Type 7859 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

202-205 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1472_V92 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV · Κ · Λ · ϹЄV*ΗΡ*ΟϹ · Π
Design
Laureate head of Septimius Severus, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1472_R150 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑ-Ν-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing right, right arm behind back, left arm holding lion skin and resting on club set on rock. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Septimius Severus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
6.69 g
Axis
8
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1472, Oxf 39

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 66, nr. 1472, pl. 78, pic. 1472  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 66, nr. 1469-1474, pl. 78 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 153, nr. 1730 ❐

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cn coin 379, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_379 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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