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cn coin 8538

Connected to Type

CN Type 637 🔍

Mint
Serdika 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV - ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Caracalla, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ϹЄΡ-ΔΩΝ
Design
Nude Eros in attitude of Thanatos standing right, legs crossed, resting on torch.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
4.13 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: 1922 3 17 34

Literature

Ruzicka, Die Münzen von Serdica 8, Vienna 1915 p. 61, nr. 377, pl. 8 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 235, nr. 2086, annot. Avers-Legende anders abgekürzt. ❐

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. 61-62, nr. 377-378 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 235, nr. 2085-2086 ❐

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cn coin 8538, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8538 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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