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cn coin 4486

Connected to Type

CN Type 5580 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

139-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0052_V37 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΟVΗΡΟϹ - ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0054_R54 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟΛΕΙΤ
Design
Nude Apollo advancing right, holding bow in left hand, drawing arrow with right hand from quiver at shoulder.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20.1 mm / Min: 19.2 mm
Weight
4.19 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 483

Provenience: Fonds général 601

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 483 4

Citation

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 3914.3  ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 126, nr. 53.2  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 nr. 622  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 261, nr. 3182-3183 ❐

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. 3914 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 126, nr. 53 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 261, nr. 3182-3183 ❐

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cn coin 4486, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4486 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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