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cn coin 8112

Connected to Type

CN Type 242 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ Ω//Τ ϹЄΒΗΡΑ / ϹЄΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩ-Ν
Design
Nude Apollo (Bonus Eventus?) standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand and branch in left hand. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Owner

Regionalen Arheologičeski Muzej - Plovdiv, Plovdiv, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Mesembria M BM

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4220 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 416, nr. 171-174, pl. 140, pic. 171-174 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4220 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 416, nr. 171-174, pl. 140, pic. 171-174 ❐

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cn coin 8112, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8112 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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