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cn coin 801

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CN Type 8050 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1563_V120 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ - 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_1564_R235 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Α*ΝΤ*ΩΝΙ-ΝΙΑ ᛈΕΒΑᛈΤΑ Β-VΖΑ*ΝΤ*ΙΩΝ
Design
Three nude athletes, the middle and right one standing facing, head left, raising right arms, the right, holding palm branch in left arm; opposite of them third athlete standing right, seen from behind, raising right arm, holding palm branch in left arm; between him and the other two a vessel.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
19.61 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: 1564, London, Kat. 102,78 Z.f.N. 39,282,16

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1564, pl. 85, pic. 1564  ❐

Gaebler, Die Losurne in der Agonistik, 1929 p. 282, nr. 16, pl. 2, pic. 11  ❐

Eckhel et al., Musei Franciani Descriptio, Lipsiae 1781 p. 140, nr. 5  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 102, nr. 78  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1564, pl. 85, pic. 1564 ❐

Gaebler, Die Losurne in der Agonistik, 1929 p. 282, nr. 16, pl. 2, pic. 11 ❐

Eckhel et al., Musei Franciani Descriptio, Lipsiae 1781 p. 140, nr. 5 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 102, nr. 78 ❐

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cn coin 801, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_801 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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