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cn coin 839

Connected to Type

CN Type 8207 🔍

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

198 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1602_V135 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse · Π · ϹЄΠ - ΓЄΤΑϹ · Κ ·
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Geta, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1602_R271 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠ · ϹΑΛ ⠁ ΑΡΙϹΤΑΙ*ΝΕ*ΤΟV ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in right hand, caduceus and chlamys in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Geta 🔍  

Magistrate: Gaius Sallius Aristaenetus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 28 mm
Weight
15.14 g
Axis
7
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 443

Provenience: Fonds général 443

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1602, Paris 443/ Paris 345

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 85, nr. 1602, pl. 88, pic. 1602  ❐

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

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 85, nr. 1602, pl. 88 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 165, nr. 1836 ❐

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

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cn coin 839, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_839 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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