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cn coin 3989

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
Max: 42.4 mm / Min: 39.8 mm
Weight
34.85 g
Axis
7
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8943

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 784, Wien

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 241, nr. 784.7  ❐

Schlosser, Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte aus den Schriftquellen des frühen Mittelalters, Wien 1891 p. 38, nr. 6, pl. 2, pic. 6  ❐

Literature

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 3989, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3989 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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