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cn coin 3888

Connected to Type

CN Type 1534 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Biz_102_V_C 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛ - ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Biz_103_R103 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖV-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Emperor (Philip the Arab) in military attire standing facing, head left, wearing helmet, cuirass and boots, resting right hand on spear, holding parazonium in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
12.42 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 18243598

Provenience: Auf Kartelle Löbbecke: \'bei Egger 1895\'.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: B 143 Ph I Typ 103C

Literature

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 67, nr. 103 ❐

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

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 132, nr. 1544 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 264, nr. 118-120 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 67, nr. 103 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 264, nr. 118-120, pl. 43 (The depicted figure is interpreted as Ares.)  ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 132, nr. 1544 ❐

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cn coin 3888, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3888 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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