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cn coin 620

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CN Type 7008 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 164-169 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2041_V9 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥΖΑΣ
Design
Head of bearded Byzas, right, wearing crested helmet with open visor. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2043_R10 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Α-ΙΛΙ Σ-ΕVΗΡΟV
Design
Prow with naval ram, right, in waters; on top, emperor (Marcus Aurelius?), standing on base, head left, holding spear in right arm, extending left hand. Border of dots.
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Persons

Magistrate: Aelius Severus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
7.78 g
Axis
1
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2043, Hunter 20

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8718

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 141, nr. 2043.3  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 74, nr. 11  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 240, nr. 205  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 395, nr. 20  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 141, nr. 2041-2045, pl. 125 ❐

Tiepolo and Theupolus, Musei Theupoli Antiqua Numismata, Venetiis 1736 nr. 1255 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 33, nr. 7 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8718 ❐

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cn coin 620, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_620 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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