cn coin 8553
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cn coin 8553

Connected to Type

CN Type 545 🔍

Mint
Serdika 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙ-ΑϹ ϹΕΡΔΙ//ΚΗϹ
Design
Bearded river-god (Oiskos) reclining left, head right, left resting onwater-urn, holding reed with flowers in right hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
15.36 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Fitzwilliam

Citation

Ruzicka, Die Münzen von Serdica 8, Vienna 1915 p. 49, nr. 284.1, pl. 6  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 261, nr. 2432, annot. Schilfrohr anders gedeutet: von Varbanov als Maiskolben und Mohn interpretiert. ❐

Hristova, Monetosečeneto na Trakija I-III v. : Serdika = The coins of Thrace I-III c. A.C.: Serdica, Blagoevgrad 2007 p. 113 ❐

Ruzicka, Die Münzen von Serdica 8, Vienna 1915 p. 48-49, nr. 283-285 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 260-261, nr. 2424-2434 ❐

Hristova, Monetosečeneto na Trakija I-III v. : Serdika = The coins of Thrace I-III c. A.C.: Serdica, Blagoevgrad 2007 p. 113, nr. 12.18.32.6 ❐

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cn coin 8553, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8553 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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