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cn coin 6900

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CN Type 4210 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

138-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bearded male head (Zeus or Poseidon?), right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖV-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Zeus standing facing, head left, holding in right hand patera over lighted altar and long sceptre in left hand.
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Metrology
Denomination
One and one half 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
3.48 g
Axis
9
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8438

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Wien 170.1

Public Commentary

Head of the obverse: Poseidon or Zeus?

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 nr. 170.1  ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 79, nr. 170, pl. 28, pic. 170 ❐

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. 9312 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 180, nr. 4-6, pl. 1 ❐

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cn coin 6900, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6900 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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