cn coin 738
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cn coin 738

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CN Type 8786 🔍

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2123_V21 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, one curl falling on each shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2126_R47 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ - ΦΡΟΝΤΩ-ΝΟϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ*ΩΝ*
Design
Ostrich advancing right on a ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
7.67 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 2126, Cph 526

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 150, nr. 2126.5 

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 242, nr. 227 

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 1, pic. 15 

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 21 b 

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen p. 10, nr. 526 

Robert, Monuments de gladiateurs dans l'orient grec 7, 1949 pl. 10, pic. 4 

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 150, nr. 2126, pl. 131, pic. 2126

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cn coin 738, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_738 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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