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cn coin 8123

Connected to Type

CN Type 248 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ Ω//Τ ϹΕΒ*ΗΡ*Α / ϹΕΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑ-ΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Zeus standing facing, head left, naked to waist, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left hand resting on sceptre; at his feet, eagle, standing left, head right, wings spread. Groundline. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Plotina 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
10.63 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249811

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Kosloff

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Imh. Phil & Ot

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4272 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 422, nr. 221-222, pl. 143, pic. 221-222 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4272 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 422, nr. 221-222, pl. 143, pic. 221-222 ❐

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cn coin 8123, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8123 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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