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cn coin 55909

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CN Type 19040 🔍

Mint
Alexandria Troas 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

218-222 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ANTONINVS PIVS AV
Design
Laureate head of Elagabalus, right, slight drapery.
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Reverse
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COL ALEX AVG
Design
She-wolf standing right, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus.
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Persons

Sitter: Elagabal 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23.9 mm
Weight
9.96 g
Axis
8
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.779

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. 780, pl. 53  ❐

Literature

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 nr. A316 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 nr. 108 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 153 ❐

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cn coin 55909, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55909 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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