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cn coin 3980

Connected to Type

CN Type 3135 🔍

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_0781_R781 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ Ι-ΩΝΩΝ ΔΙᛈ ΝΕΩΚΟΡ*ΩΝ*
Design
On left, nude youthful Heros of Perinthus standing right, seen from behind, wearing chlamys over left shoulder, clasping right hands with Heracles standing left, lion skin over left arm, leaning on club with left hand. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
41 mm
Weight
27.75 g
Axis
1
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8940

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Wien

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 240, nr. 781, pl. 48, pic. 781 ❐

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 240, nr. 781, pl. 48 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 64, nr. 465 ❐

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cn coin 3980, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3980 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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