cn coin 3979
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cn coin 3979

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CN Type 3134 🔍

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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
Diameter
Max: 37.8 mm / Min: 36.6 mm
Weight
26.29 g
Axis
1
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8944

Provenience: 1821, Sammlung Tiepolo

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Wien, 8944

Literature

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

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 3979, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3979 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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