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cn coin 741

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CN Type 7896 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 198 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1521_V111 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗΛ - Α*ΝΤ*ΩΝΙΝΟϹ - ϹΕΒ
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1521_R193 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠ Γ ϹΑΛΛ - ΑΡΙϹΤΑΙ*ΝΕ*ΤΟV // ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι/ΩΝ
Design
Europa seated right, head left, halfnaked, on bull advancing left, head facing, leaning with right hand, holding with left hand veil fluttering curved over her head.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Magistrate: Gaius Sallius Aristaenetus 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Herais 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
34 mm
Weight
26.41 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 422

Provenience: Fonds général 422

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1521, Paris 422

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 72, nr. 1521  ❐

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. 256, nr. 313  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 44, nr. 14 b  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 72, nr. 1521, pl. 81 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 158, nr. 1774-1775 ❐

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cn coin 741, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_741 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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