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cn coin 40740

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CN Type 2840 🔍

Mint
Adramyttion 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹЄ(Β) ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ЄΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑVΡ(Η) ΓΑΙΟV Β ΝЄ ΑΔΡΑΜVΤΗΝΩΝ
Design
Asclepius standing right, holding serpent-staff in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Strategos: Aurelius Gaios 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25.8 mm
Weight
7.93 g
Axis
5
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Provenience: Kölner MK Auktion 107, Teil 1 (Slg. Grewer), 1; Schulten, Oct. 1988, 868 = Kölner Münzkabinett 107, 7 Oct. 2017, lot 1

Public Commentary

Unterschiedliche Schreibweise von ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟC in der Vs.-Legende.

Citation

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 233, nr. 241a  ❐

Calomino, RPC VI: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. VI: From Elagabalus to Maximinus Thrax (AD 218–238). online nr. 4133.15  ❐

Literature

Fritze et al., Die antiken Münzen Mysiens. 1: Adramytion - Kisthene, Berlin 1913 p. 54-55, nr. 161-166 ❐

Calomino, RPC VI: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. VI: From Elagabalus to Maximinus Thrax (AD 218–238). online nr. 4133-4134 ❐

Stauber et al., Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Bonn 1996 p. 232, nr. 234-241 ❐

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