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cn coin 869

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CN Type 8223 🔍

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

217-218 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1634_V147 🔍
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΟΠΕΛ ϹЄΟVΗΡ ΜΑΚΡЄΙΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Macrinus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1635_R303 🔍
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΝΕΙΚ(ΗϹ) ΤΟ Ζ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Two fish traps, in between a cattle to the right.
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Persons

Sitter: Macrinus 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Nike (Gottheit) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
19.75 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235849

Provenience: Löbbecke 1906

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1635, B 183

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 89, nr. 1635, pl. 91, pic. 1635  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 89, nr. 1634-1635, pl. 91 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 166, nr. 1844 ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 262, nr. 352 ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 2, pic. 5 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 17 ❐

Bartoli, Nummophylacium Reginae Christinae: Quod Comprehendit Numismata Aerea Imperatorum Romanorum, Latina, Graeca atque in Coloniis Cusa, Hagae Comitum 1742 p. 217, pl. 30, pic. 3 ❐

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cn coin 869, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_869 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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