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cn coin 8131

Connected to Type

CN Type 250 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ *ΑVΓ* Μ ΩΤΑΚΙΛ // ϹЄΒΗΡΑ / ϹЄΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑ*ΜΒ*-ΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing kalathos and long garment, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left arm resting on tympanon; beside throne lion lying left. 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

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 134,18

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Phil. u. Otac. London Cat. 134,18

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 354, nr. 4228 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 422, nr. 229-232, pl. 143, pic. 229-232 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 354, nr. 4228 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 422, nr. 229-232, pl. 143, pic. 229-232 ❐

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cn coin 8131, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8131 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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