cn coin 3997
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cn coin 3997

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
Max: 39.3 mm / Min: 38.2 mm
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Uffizien?

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Uff. Sev. Alex. Perinthus AE

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 243, nr. 789 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 157, nr. 58 ❐

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. 316 ❐

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cn coin 3997, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3997 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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