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cn coin 3875

Connected to Type

CN Type 1558 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Biz_136_V_B 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; with aegis on left shoulder and eagle, wings spread, on breastplate. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Biz_136_R136 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖV//ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Hades-Serapis, Isis, Harpokrates and Demeter; in the centre, Hades-Serapis enthroned facing, extending right hand over Cerberus, holding sceptre in left hand; at right, Isis standing facing, head left, holding sistrum in right hand and cornucopia in left arm, at her right, small figure Harpokrates standing facing, head left, holding cornucopia in left arm; at left, Demeter standing facing, head right, holding long torch in left arm and to her left small figure of Kynokephalos.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Weight
44.99 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18243361

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Imh Berlin 136B/3

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 72, nr. 136.3, pl. 22, pic. 136/3  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 133, nr. 1546, annot. Aber Abweichung in der Revers-Legende. ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 240, nr. 12-14 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 72, nr. 136 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 240, nr. 12-14, pl. 31-32 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 133, nr. 1546 ❐

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cn coin 3875, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3875 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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