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cn coin 3853

Connected to Type

CN Type 1319 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 138-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Biz_166_V166 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and hair falling in long curls on neck and shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Biz_167_R167 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖV-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Silenus standing facing, head right, with tail behind, stepping right, holding wineskin on his shoulders in both hands from which he pours wine into large volute krater to right on ground in front of him.
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Metrology
Denomination
One and one half 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
4.27 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18242945

Provenience: Löbbecke 7457.16.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Löbbecke 167.2

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 167.2  ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 9311.7  ❐

Literature

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

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 9311 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 17-22 ❐

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. 9311 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 166-167 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 17-22, pl. 2 ❐

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cn coin 3853, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3853 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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