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cn coin 7982

Connected to Type

CN Type 219 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-247 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡ ΙΟVΛΙΟϹ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ // ΚΑΙϹ*ΑΡ*
Design
Confronting busts of Philippus iunior, wearing paludamentum and of Serapis, draped and wearing kalathos.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕᛈΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Zeus standing left, cloak over left shoulder, holding patera in outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand; at his feet, left, eagle standing left, head right, wings half spread.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus iunior 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
10.68 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: BM London 85

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 361, nr. 4298 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 442, nr. 417-419, pl. 153, pic. 417-419, annot. Patera als Blitzbündel interpretiert. ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 361, nr. 4298 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 442, nr. 417-419, pl. 153, pic. 417-419 (Patera is interpreted as thunderbolt.)  ❐

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cn coin 7982, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7982 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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