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cn coin 56288

Connected to Type

CN Type 213 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-247 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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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
Veiled Demeter standing left, holding ears of corn and long torch.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus iunior 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27.1 mm
Weight
11.38 g
Axis
1
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.279

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. 279  ❐

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 436-438, nr. 370-395, pl. 150/151, pic. 370-395 ❐

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

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/312905 ❐

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cn coin 56288, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56288 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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