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cn coin 3991

Connected to Type

CN Type 3139 🔍

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_0785_R785 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙᛈ - ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Laureate and togate emperor (Severus Alexander) standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand over lighted tripod, and a small scroll in left hand. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

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

Römisch-germanisches Museum Köln, Köln, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: Niessen 12 345

Provenience: Sammlung Niessen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 785, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln

Findspot

Köln, de [de] ❐

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 242, nr. 785.1, pl. 48, pic. 785/1  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 241-242, nr. 785, pl. 48 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 66, nr. 480 ❐

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cn coin 3991, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3991 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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