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cn coin 874

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CN Type 8360 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 217-218 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1639_V150 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ Ο Α*ΝΤ* ΔΙΑΔΟVΜЄΝΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑ
Design
Cuirassed bust of youthful Diadumenian, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1640_R308 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ *ΝΕ* ΤΟ Ζ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ·
Design
Dolphin swimming right between two tunnies.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Nike (Gottheit) 🔍

Sitter: Diadumenian 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 29 mm / Min: 21 mm
Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1640, Erm

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 90, nr. 1640, pl. 91, pic. 1640  ❐

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. 89-90, nr. 1639-1640 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 89 ❐

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

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cn coin 874, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_874 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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