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cn coin 776

Connected to Type

CN Type 8036 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 209-212 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1538_V116 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΝΤΩ*ΝΕ*ΙΝΟϹ - ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass, holding spear over left shoulder with left hand.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1543_R215 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑ-Ν-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Two torches, inbetween, garlanded lighted altar.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
34 mm
Weight
21.30 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: 1543, London 174

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 77, nr. 1543, pl. 84, pic. 1543  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 102, nr. 80  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 77, nr. 1540-1546, pl. 84 ❐

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cn coin 776, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_776 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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