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cn coin 3985

Connected to Type

CN Type 3136 🔍

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_0782_R782 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙWΝ ΔΙᛈ // ΝΕWΚΟΡWΝ
Design
Emperor (Severus Alexander) with Isis (Pharia) and Serapis; in the middle, emperor (Severus Alexander) in military attire standing facing, head left, standing left on galley, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand; to left, Isis (Pharia) standing left, inclining, wearing fluttering garment, holding sail in both hands; to right, bearded Serapis standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, crowning emperor with laurel wreath in right hand, holding rudder in left hand; hull decorated with octopus to left, fish in the middle and dolphin to right, all swimming left. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40.8 mm
Weight
35.09 g
Axis
1
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8941

Provenience: 1821, Sammlung Tiepolo

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 782, Wien MII 413, 321

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 241, nr. 782.8  ❐

Tiepolo and Theupolus, Musei Theupoli Antiqua Numismata, Venetiis 1736 p. 803, nr. 1029  ❐

Rasche and Heyne, Lexicon Vniversae Rei Nvmariae Vetervm Et Praecipve Graecorvm Ac Romanorvm : Cvm Observationibvs Antiquariis, Geographicis, Chronologicis, Historicis, Criticis Et Passim Cvm Explicatione Monogrammatvm, Lipsiae 1785 p. 939, nr. 15  ❐

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cn coin 3985, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3985 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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