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cn coin 6896

Connected to Type

CN Type 5462 🔍

Mint
Plotinopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

138-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and three long curls falling on his neck.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΛΩΤΕΙΝΟ-ΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Cantharus. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
3.30 g
Axis
6
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR9057

Public Commentary

RPC IV, 9605/1.

Citation

Tasaklaki, Changes of Cultural and Religious Identity through the Iconography of the So-Called Pseudo-Autonomous Coins of the Cities of Roman Thrace, Berlin 2022 pl. 391, pic. 29  ❐

Literature

Tasaklaki, Changes of Cultural and Religious Identity through the Iconography of the So-Called Pseudo-Autonomous Coins of the Cities of Roman Thrace, Berlin 2022 p. 391, pl. 399, pic. 29 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/182269 ❐

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cn coin 6896, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6896 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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