cn coin 3996
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cn coin 3996

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CN Type 3144 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0789_V_E 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV Κ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕV - ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; with aegis on left shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0788_R788 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙ*WΝ* / Β ΝΕ-WΚΟ/ΡWΝ - Ι*WΝWΝ*
Design
Zeus within zodiac; in the middle, Zeus seated facing, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left resting on sceptre; at his feet, eagle to left, head right, with half spread wings; to upper left, Helios standing in quadriga, right, raising right arm; above, crescent; to upper right, Selene standing in biga towed by two bulls, left, holding torch in raised right hand; above, star; below, reclining figures of Gaia to right, holding cornucopia in right arm and a branch in left hand, and of Thalassa to left, wearing crab claws as headdress, holding ruder in left arm; prora at her feet; all within a double circle divided into twelve compartments containing the signs of the zodiac.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
Diameter
39 mm
Weight
38.50 g
Owner

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, de

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: Nießen 12 398

Provenience: Sammlung Niessen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 789, Köln

Findspot

Köln, de [de]

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 243, nr. 789.1 

Reusch, Griechische Münzen und Inschriften der römischen Kaiserzeit aus Köln 22, 1938 p. 168, nr. 9, pl. 31, pic. 6 

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cn coin 3996, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3996 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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