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cn coin 870

Connected to Type

CN Type 8349 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 217-218 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1636_V148 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΟΠЄΛ ϹЄΟVΗ - ΜΑΚΡΙΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ
Design
Laureate bust of Macrinus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1636_R304 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠΙ ΝЄΙΚΗ Τ-Ο Υ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nike standing facing, head left.
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Persons

Sitter: Macrinus 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Nike (Gottheit) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
7 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 35.4 mm / Min: 34 mm
Weight
30.57 g
Axis
12
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8522

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1636, Wien 72

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 89, nr. 1636, pl. 91, pic. 1636  ❐

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. 353  ❐

Wiczay, Musei Hedervarii in Hungaria numos antiquos Graecos et Latinos descripsit, anecdotos vel parum cognitos etiam cupreis tabulis, Vindobonae 1814 nr. 2296, pl. 8, pic. 185  ❐

Sestini, Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano, Firenze 1828 p. 50, nr. 23  ❐

Sallet, Beiträge zur Antiken Münz- und Alterthumskunde 9, 1882 p. 148  ❐

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

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 89, nr. 1636, pl. 91, pic. 1636 ❐

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

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cn coin 870, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_870 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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