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cn coin 3992

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
43 mm
Weight
36.87 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1018

Provenience: Fonds général 1224

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 785, Paris 1018

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 242, nr. 785.2  ❐

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. 411, nr. 318  ❐

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 3992, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3992 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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