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cn coin 790

Connected to Type

CN Type 8043 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1553_V118 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Α*ΝΤ*ΩΝΙΝΟϹ - ΑVΓΟVϹΤΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass, holding spear over left shoulder with left hand.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1554_R226 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΑΙ ΠΟ*ΝΤ*ΙΚΟV ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ*
Design
Two torches, inbetween, lighted altar.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Magistrate: Aelius Ponticus (2) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
13.70 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 426

Provenience: Fonds général 426

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1554, Paris 426

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 78, nr. 1554, pl. 85, pic. 1554  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 p. 99  ❐

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. 257, nr. 321  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 45, nr. 16  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 78, nr. 1554-1556, pl. 85 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 513 ❐

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cn coin 790, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_790 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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