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cn coin 48638

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CN Type 8504 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕVΗ ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate head of Severus Alexander, right.
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Reverse
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ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Two torches; inbetween modius containing poppy and two ears of corn.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
22.55 g
Axis
7
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.15647

Provenience: Bequest of E.T. Newell

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 108, nr. 1760, pl. 102, pic. 1760 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a ❐

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cn coin 48638, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48638 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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