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cn coin 51610

Connected to Type

CN Type 219 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-247 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΜΑΡ ΙΟVΛΙΟϹ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Confronted busts of Philippus iunior, bare-headed, and of Serapis, wearing kalathos.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Zeus standing left, holding patera and sceptre; at his feet, eagle.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus iunior 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
12.71 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger eA 366 (29.10.2000) lot 411, ex Sammlung Marcel Burstein, Nevada

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 361, nr. 4298 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 442, nr. 417-419, pl. 153, pic. 417-419 (Patera is interpreted as thunderbolt.)  ❐

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cn coin 51610, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51610 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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