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cn coin 5493

Connected to Type

CN Type 2436 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

139-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0428_V_H 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΑVΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟV-ΗΡΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful, lightly bearded Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0419z_R419z 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩΝ
Design
Zeus enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, leaning left on sceptre. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
10.04 g
Axis
7
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 3622; Collection D. Alighieri

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 25, nr. 134, pic. 134 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 p. 272, nr. 4478 ❐

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 164, nr. 428, pl. 23, pic. 428 ❐

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 163, nr. 419 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8658, annot. temporary ❐

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cn coin 5493, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5493 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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