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cn coin 3999

Connected to Type

CN Type 3142 🔍

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_0787_R787 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕ-ΡΙΝΘΙ-WΝ Δ-Ιᛈ / i.f.u. ΝΕW//ΚΟΡ*WΝ*
Design
Emperor (Severus Alexander) in military attire riding right on horseback, covered with panther fur, wearing cuirass, fluttering paludamentum and boots, holding transverse spear in right hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

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

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 790, London 76

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 243, nr. 790.2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 157, nr. 59  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 243, nr. 790, pl. 48-49 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 60, nr. 428 ❐

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cn coin 3999, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3999 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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