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cn coin 8523

Connected to Type

CN Type 561 🔍

Mint
Serdika 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV - ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ - ϹΕΡΔΙΚΗϹ
Design
Serpent coiling, bent four times, head right. Ground line.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 27 mm
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: 1958 3 4 203

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 262, nr. 2443-2445 ❐

Ruzicka, Die Münzen von Serdica 8, Vienna 1915 p. 58, nr. 357 ❐

Hristova, Monetosečeneto na Trakija I-III v. : Serdika = The coins of Thrace I-III c. A.C.: Serdica, Blagoevgrad 2007 ❐

Ruzicka, Die Münzen von Serdica 8, Vienna 1915 p. 58-59, nr. 355-356, 359-361 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 262, nr. 2443-2449 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 800, pl. 16 ❐

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cn coin 8523, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8523 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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