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cn coin 3996

Connected to Type

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
bronze 🔍  
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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