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cn coin 3988

Connected to Type

CN Type 3138 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0784_V_D 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕV · ΑΛΕ-ΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass; with aegis on left shoulder; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0784_R784 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙWΝ ΙW*ΝW*-Ν Β ΝΕ*WΚ*ΟΡ*WΝ* / i.f. ΑΚΤΙ/Α -ΠVΘ/ΙΑ
Design
Turreted Tyche standing facing, head left, holding temple on outstretched right hand; in left arm cornucopia thereon temple; at her feet, prize crown thereon a purse and at right, a second with five apples on it. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
41 mm
Weight
36.62 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1022

Provenience: Fonds général 1228

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 784, Paris 1022

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 241, nr. 784.4  ❐

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. 412, nr. 322  ❐

Camps, Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli musaei ..., (Paris) 1696 p. 79, nr. 2  ❐

Gessner, Numismata antiqua imperatorum Romanorum, latina et graeca ..., Tiguri 1738 p. 143, nr. 21  ❐

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. 260  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli e museo ... Francisci de Camps ..., Parisiis 1694 p. 79, nr. 2  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.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, 1822 p. 433, nr. 1369  ❐

Pick, Die tempeltragenden Gottheiten und die Darstellung der Neokorie auf den Münzen 7, 1904 p. 9, nr. 7  ❐

Literature

Sestini, Descriptio selectorum numismatum in aere maximi moduli e Muses olim Abbatis de Camps, Berolini 1808 p. 4, nr. 46 ❐

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 241, nr. 784 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 65, nr. 474 ❐

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cn coin 3988, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3988 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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