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cn coin 3974

Connected to Type

CN Type 3131 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0778_V_A 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse · ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑVΡΗ . ϹΕV · ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ· ΑVΓ ·
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Severus Alexander, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0778_R778 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙ-ΝΘΙWΝ - Β ΝΕ*WΚ*ΟΡ*WΝ* / i.f.o. ΙW-*ΝWΝ*
Design
Ariadne and Dionysus; in the front, Ariadne lying left on rock, sleeping with arms behind her head, wearing double chiton, seen from front; at her feet, dog lying left, head right; in the middle, Dionysus standing facing, wearing ivy wreath and nebris over shoulder, holding thyrsus in right hand; left hand over the shoulder of a Silenus, standing facing, pointing at Ariadne with right hand; to right, a second Silenus standing facing, extending hands; to left, horned Pan with goat-legs, bouncing, holding a pedum in left hand,right hand on the shoulder of a silen, standing right, resting both hands on a stock. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Weight
32.78 g
Axis
2
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1042

Provenience: Fonds général 1230

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 778, Paris 1042

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 240, nr. 778, pl. 48, pic. 778  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 412, nr. 324  ❐

Beger, Numismata Moduli Maximi vulgo medaigloni ex Cimeliarcho Ludovici XIV. Potentissimi Galliarum Monarchae ad exemplar Parisiense servare et ordine Numismatum Numero XLI Tabellarum in gratam et usum Studiosae Antiquitatum Iuventutis recusa., Eleutheropoli 1704 pl. 24, pic. 7  ❐

Gessner, Numismata antiqua imperatorum Romanorum, latina et graeca ..., Tiguri 1738 pl. 163, pic. 17  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 p. 139  ❐

Bernhart, Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen: numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos, 1949 p. 125, nr. 979  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Nymphen und Chariten auf griechischen Münzen, Athen 1908 p. 148, nr. 424  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 239-240, nr. 778, pl. 48 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 62, nr. 455 ❐

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cn coin 3974, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3974 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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