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cn coin 55738

Connected to Type

CN Type 221 🔍

Mint
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
Demeter (Hygieia?) standing left, holding patera and torch? entwined by serpent.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus iunior 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
9.72 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Lanz 82 (24.11.1997) 630

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 438-440, nr. 396-410, pic. 396-410 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 359, nr. 4284 ❐

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cn coin 55738, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55738 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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