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cn coin 63640

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CN Type 22060 🔍

Mint
Apollonia Pontike 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 147–169/176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Apollonia_Pontica_V451 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΦΑΟΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ – ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Design
Draped bust of Faustina II, right. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Apollonia_Pontica_R726 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΗΤΕΩΝ // ΕΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ
Design
Two-levelled burning rogus. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Faustina II. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
4.56 g
Axis
6
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1900-6-6-24

Findspot

Sozopol (Созопол), bg [bg] ❐

Literature

Ivanova-Anaplioti, Die Münzprägung von Apollonia Pontike nr. 4096 ❐

Tachev, The Provincial Coinage of Apollonia Pontica, 2017 p. 160, nr. 18 ❐

Steinwand, Apollonia Pontika, Berlin 1910 p. 56, nr. 102.1 ❐

Wroth, Greek Coins Acquired by the British Museum in 1900 20, 1900 p. 280, nr. 10, pl. XIII, pic. 10 ❐

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. 5008.1 ❐

Svoronos, Nomismata Apollōnias tēs en Pontō kai tēs nēsou Peparēthou Journal international d'archéologie numismatique, 1899 p. 85, nr. 2 ❐

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cn coin 63640, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_63640 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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