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cn coin 8116

Connected to Type

CN Type 244 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ ΩΤ // ϹЄΒ*ΗΡ*Α Ϲ/ЄΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding serpent-staff in right hand. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
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: London 91a

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 354, nr. 4223 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 418, nr. 184-193, pl. 141, pic. 184-193 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 4223/4224, nr. 354 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 418, nr. 184-193, pl. 141, pic. 184-193 ❐

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cn coin 8116, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8116 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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