cn coin 55820
cn coin 55820-0
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cn coin 55820

Connected to Type

CN Type 20389 🔍

Mint
Ilion 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

161–169 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ΑVΡ ΒΗΡΟϹ
Design
Bust of bearded Lucius Verus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
Design
Athena Ilias standing right, wearing kalathos, holding spear in her raised right hand and spindle in her left.
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Persons

Sitter: Lucius Verus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
semis 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20.1 mm
Weight
4.48 g
Axis
12
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.804

Provenience: Righetti

Citation

Kapossy and Righetti, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Schweiz. 2: Münzen der Antike: Katalog der Sammlung Jean-Pierre Righetti im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Bern 1993 nr. 804, pl. 54  ❐

Literature

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 p. 52, nr. T155-6, pl. 7, pic. T155 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 nr. 58 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 400 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/206881 ❐

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cn coin 55820, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55820 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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