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cn coin 4246

Connected to Type

CN Type 3378 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

253-268 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0898_V_B 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ ΓΑΛΛΗΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Design
Laureate bust of Gallienus, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding spear in right hand and shield with gorgoneion in left arm. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0899_R899 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡ*ΩΝ*
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing right, strangling in both hands the attacking Nemean lion left; at left, club.
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Persons

Sitter: Gallienus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 36 mm / Min: 35 mm
Weight
30.00 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: 899, London 96

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 265, nr. 899, pl. 56, pic. 899  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 160, nr. 75  ❐

Bräuer, Die Heraklestatuen auf antiken Münzen 28, 1910 p. 45  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 265, nr. 897-899, pl. 56 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 81-82, nr. 598-599 ❐

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cn coin 4246, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4246 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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