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cn coin 7926

Connected to Type

CN Type 10881 🔍

Mint
Philippopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

195-197 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΑVΡ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Caracalla, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟ-ΠΟΛЄΙΤΩ//Ν
Design
Emperor (Caracalla or Septimius Severus) in military attire riding right on horseback, wearing cuirass, fluttering paludamentum and boots, raising right arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19.8 mm / Min: 17.8 mm
Weight
3.30 g
Axis
7
Owner

Coll. W. Holt, Sydney, au

Public Commentary

Coin is not fully struck, and shows weakness to parts of the legends and reverse type. Additionally, it is uncertain as to whether this coin was struck whilst Caracalla was Caesar, or post-elevation. The youthful portrait indicates toward the earlier part of his reign, but whether as Caesar or not is unclear. The obverse has a die-link with CCCHBulg Vol. V Pazardzhik (2015) N° 242 where the reverse shows a bunch of grapes. - Not in Varbanov. - (W. Holt)

Literature

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 ❐

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 312, nr. XV.28.5 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 7926, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7926 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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