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cn coin 56531

Connected to Type

CN Type 1445 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Κ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ Π
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Apollo standing left, legs crossed, holding patera in right hand, left hand over serpent coiling around omphalos.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30.5 mm
Weight
13.65 g
Axis
7
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.258

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. 258  ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 59, nr. 51 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 220, nr. 29-32, pl. 21 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 125, nr. 1479 ❐

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cn coin 56531, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56531 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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