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cn coin 56298

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CN Type 15296 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244–249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ Μ ΩΤΑΚΙΛ ϹЄΒΗΡΑ ϹЄΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, wearing paludamentum, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜΒ-ΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, holding patera and tympanum; at her feet, lion.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25.9 mm
Weight
11.54 g
Axis
1
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.278

Provenience: Righetti

Literature

RPC VIII: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VIII: Philip (AD 244–249). Online nr. 48405 ❐

Kapossy and Righetti, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Schweiz. 2: Münzen der Antike: Katalog der Sammlung Jean-Pierre Righetti im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Bern 1993 nr. 278, pl. 19 ❐

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cn coin 56298, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56298 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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