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cn coin 3977

Connected to Type

CN Type 3134 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0780_V_C 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV Κ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕVΗ · ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0780_R780 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΙΘΙΩΝ ΙΩ-Ν-ΩΝ ΔΙᛈ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Nude Ares standing facing, head right, wearing helmet, right hand resting on spear, holding bow in left hand; chlamys over left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Weight
31.72 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1017

Provenience: Fonds général 1223

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 780, Paris 1017

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 240, nr. 780, pl. 48, pic. 780  ❐

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. 411, nr. 317  ❐

Schlessinger, Sammlung griechischer Münzen aus Museumsbesitz: Münz-Auktion 4. Februar 1935, Felix Schlessinger, Berlin, Berlin 1935 pl. 18, pic. 487  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 240, nr. 780, pl. 48 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 65, nr. 471 ❐

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cn coin 3977, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3977 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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