cn coin 56452

Connected to Type

CN Type 1497 🔍

Mint

Bizye 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ

Design

Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ

Design

Nude Zeus (Epikarpios) standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand and ears of corn in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

29.3 mm

Weight

13.20 g

Axis

Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.259

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. 259 ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 63, nr. 72 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 256, nr. 66, pl. 39 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 135, nr. 1575 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/306729 ❐

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cn coin 56452, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56452 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]