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cn coin 4478

Connected to Type

CN Type 5576 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

139-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0046_V33 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟVΗ-ΡΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0046_R46 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Radiate head of Helios, right.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
5.83 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: 46.1, London 77

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 124, nr. 46.1, pl. V, pic. 46  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 116, nr. 5  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 261, nr. 3191 ❐

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 3915 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 124, nr. 46-47 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 261, nr. 3191 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 3915 ❐

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cn coin 4478, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4478 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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