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cn coin 803

Connected to Type

CN Type 8083 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1565_V121 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ · - · ΑVΓΟVϹΤΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1566_R237 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ · ΑΙ · ΠΟ*ΝΤ*ΙΚΟV - ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Tyche standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left arm. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Magistrate: Aelius Ponticus (2) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
17.65 g
Axis
1
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1566, Hunter H B 29

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1566.1  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 397, nr. 29  ❐

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. 79, nr. 1566, pl. 86 ❐

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cn coin 803, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_803 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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