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cn coin 797

Connected to Type

CN Type 8045 🔍

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_1561_R233 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ · ΑΙ · ΠΟ*ΝΤ*ΙΚ-ΟV - ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ*
Design
Two torches; on ground inbetween, modius with four ears of corn and a poppy.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Magistrate: Aelius Ponticus (2) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34 mm / Min: 30 mm
Weight
16.46 g
Axis
1
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Stamules

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1561, Stamules 206

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1561.1, pl. 85, pic. 1561/1  ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 206  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 78-79, nr. 1557-1561.1563, pl. 85 ❐

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cn coin 797, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_797 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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