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cn coin 3975

Connected to Type

CN Type 3133 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0779_V_B 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV Κ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕVΗ - ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; with aegis on left shoulder, gorgoneion on breastplate. 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
Max: 41 mm / Min: 38 mm
Weight
28.60 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 779, Löbb Perinthus

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 240, nr. 779,1, pl. 48, pic. 779/1  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Nymphen und Chariten auf griechischen Münzen, Athen 1908 p. 148, nr. 424, pl. 9, pic. 18  ❐

Bernhart, Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen: numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos, 1949 p. 125, nr. 979, pl. 6, pic. 18  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 240, nr. 779, pl. 48 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 62, nr. 456 ❐

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cn coin 3975, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3975 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/07]

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