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cn coin 826

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CN Type 8105 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 209-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1590_V129 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ - ΑVΓΟVϹΤΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1591_R261 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑ-ΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Athena standing facing, head left, wearing long garment and helmet, holding patera in outstretched right hand and spear in left arm; at her feet, shield placed on ground.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
11.49 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 393

Provenience: Fonds général 393

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1591, Paris 393

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 82, nr. 1591, pl. 87, pic. 1591  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 248, nr. 265  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 82, nr. 1584-1586.1591, pl. 87 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 157, nr. 1764 ❐

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cn coin 826, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_826 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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