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cn coin 3979

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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
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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