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cn coin 661

Connected to Type

CN Type 7042 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 178 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2059_V19 🔍
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_2061_R25 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠ · - ΑΙ · ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟV *ΗΡ*
Design
Prow with naval ram in shape of animal's head, left; on top, emperor (Marcus Aurelius) standing left wearing cuirass and laureal wreath, extending right hand, holding parazonium in left arm.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Aelius Ponticus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
7.08 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2061, London 151

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8725

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 144, nr. 2061.1  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 98, nr. 57  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 144, nr. 2059-2061, pl. 126 ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 189 ❐

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. 8725 ❐

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cn coin 661, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_661 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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