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cn coin 879

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CN Type 8364 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 217-218 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1642_V151 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ Ο*ΠΕ* ΔΙΑΔΟ*VΜ*ЄΝΙΑΝΟϹ Κ
Design
Bust of youthful Diadumenian, right, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1645_R313 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nike standing facing, head left, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and palm branch in left arm. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Diadumenian 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
7.88 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 448

Provenience: Fonds général 448

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1645, Paris 448

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 90, nr. 1645, pl. 92, pic. 1645  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 nr. 124  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. 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, Paris 1806 p. 381, nr. 120  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 90, nr. 1644-1645, pl. 92 ❐

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cn coin 879, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_879 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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