cn coin 5185
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cn coin 5185

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CN Type 6227 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0335_V173 🔍
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_0338_R328 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝ-ΟΠΟ-ΛΕΙ//ΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Ganymede standing facing, head right, wearing Phrygian cap and boots, holding staff with his right hand over shoulders; to right, eagle standing on a short column with spread wings, head upwards; at his feet, left, hound advancing left, head right. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
12.18 g
Owner

Academia Română, Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile Pârvan", Bukarest, ro

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1261/3642

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Bukarest, Caracalla

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 173, nr. 338.3 

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 290, nr. 3523

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 290, nr. 3523

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 173, nr. 338

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cn coin 5185, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5185 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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