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cn coin 6243

Connected to Type

CN Type 1439 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

195-197 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Biz-Per_0546_V_A 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse . Μ ΑΥΡΗ ⠁Λ ⠁ΑΝ-ΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ · ΚΑΙ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Caracalla, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Biz_046_R46 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖVΗ-Ν-ΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing facing, head right, holding club in right hand, lion skin over left arm and apples of the Hesperides in left hand. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
8.40 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 3035

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia 3035

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 58, nr. 46, pl. 8, pic. 46  ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 3478  ❐

Literature

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 216, nr. 5-6 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 125, nr. 1469 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 58, nr. 46 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 216, nr. 5-6, pl. 19 ❐

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cn coin 6243, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6243 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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