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cn coin 420

Connected to Type

CN Type 7881 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 202-205 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1506_V106 🔍
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Legend obverse ΑΥ Κ · Λ · ϹЄΠ · ϹЄV*ΗΡ*ΟϹ · Κ · ΙΟVΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ۬ ⠁ϹЄΒ·
Design
Confronted busts of Septimius Severus, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Julia Domna, draped. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1509_R181 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Β-V-ΖΑΝ-Τ-ΙΩΝ
Design
Europa seated right, head left, halfnaked, on bull advancing left, head facing, leaning with right hand, holding with left hand veil fluttering curved over her head.
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Persons

Sitter: Septimius Severus 🔍  

Sitter: Iulia Domna 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
19.26 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: 1509, London 168

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 70, nr. 1509, pl. 80, pic. 1509  ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 2, pic. 6  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 70, nr. 1509, pl. 80 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 155, nr. 1739 ❐

Hamburger, Auktionskatalog (Sammlung N. Kosloff/St. Petersburg) Frankfurt am Main, 29. Mai 1893, Frankfurt am Main 1893 p. 13, nr. 385 ❐

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cn coin 420, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_420 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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