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cn coin 838

Connected to Type

CN Type 8206 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 198 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1601_V134 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Π ϹЄΠ - ΓЄΤΑ ϹЄΒ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Geta, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1601_R270 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠ Γ ϹΑΛΛ - ΑΡΙϹΤΑΙ*ΝΕ*ΤΟV // ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι/ΩΝ
Design
Europa seated right, head left, halfnaked, on bull advancing left, head facing, leaning with right hand, holding with left hand veil fluttering curved over her head.
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Persons

Sitter: Geta 🔍  

Magistrate: Gaius Sallius Aristaenetus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
20.98 g
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: 1601, London 183

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 84, nr. 1601, pl. 88, pic. 1601  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 103, nr. 87  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 44, nr. 14b  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 84, nr. 1601, pl. 88 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 103, nr. 87 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 44, nr. 14b ❐

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cn coin 838, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_838 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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