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cn coin 55831

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CN Type 3579 🔍

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 139-146 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΓΟVϹ ΑVΡΗΛΙΟϹ Κ
Design
Bare head of youthful Marcus Aurelius, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club set on ground, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the right)
Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20.6 mm
Weight
3.79 g
Axis
5
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.712

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. 712, pl. 48  ❐

Literature

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 128, nr. 93-94 ❐

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. 645, annot. ca. 139-146 n. Chr. ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/192001 ❐

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cn coin 55831, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55831 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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