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cn coin 5159

Connected to Type

CN Type 6143 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0278_V157 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV - ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of lightly bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0279_R270 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟΛΕ-ΙΤΩΝ
Design
Triptolemos standing right in biga drawn by two winged serpents, wearing a cloak, holding seeds in fold of garment in left hand and raising right arm to sow the seeds; Earth reclining left on ground below the biga, with her outstretched left hand holding ears of corn.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.4 mm / Min: 25.4 mm
Weight
10.80 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 3840

Provenience: Sammlung Avramov

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia 3840

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 164, nr. 279.3  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 295, nr. 3589 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 295, nr. 3589 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 164, nr. 279 ❐

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cn coin 5159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5159 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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