cn coin 8556
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cn coin 8556

Connected to Type

CN Type 635 🔍

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 ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ - ϹΕΡΔΙΚΗϹ
Design
Veiled Demeter standing facing, head left, wearing long garment, holding patera in outstretched right hand over cista mystica with half-open lid, out of which a serpent creeps left, and long torch entwined by serpent in left arm. Ground line.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 27 mm
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 3

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 247, nr. 2258 ❐

Ruzicka, Die Münzen von Serdica 8, Vienna 1915 p. 31, nr. 148 ❐

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. 31, nr. 148 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 247, nr. 2258 ❐

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cn coin 8556, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8556 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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