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cn coin 8147

Connected to Type

CN Type 258 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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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 ΜΕϹΑΜ-ΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Serapis standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding drapery and long sceptre in left hand; holding sceptre diagonally in front of his body.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

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

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Ankara Mesembr. 9

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4265 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 426-428, nr. 278-281, pl. 145,146, pic. 278-281 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 426-428, nr. 272-275, 278-281, pl. 145, 146, pic. 272-275, 278-281 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4265, 4267 ❐

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cn coin 8147, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8147 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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