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cn coin 45978

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CN Type 20111 🔍

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Alexandria Troas 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

251-253 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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IMP VIBI AFIN OLVSSIAN
Design
Laureate bust of Volusian, right.
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Reverse
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COL AVGO TROA
Design
She-wolf standing right, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus.
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Persons

Sitter: Volusianus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23.3 mm
Weight
4.78 g
Axis
5
Owner

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, de ❐

Citation

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2548, pl. 89, pic. 2548  ❐

Literature

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 p. 139, nr. A424, pl. 23 (Type 56)  ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 nr. 153 ❐

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2548 ❐

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cn coin 45978, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45978 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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