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cn coin 888

Connected to Type

CN Type 8375 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1651_V155 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ⠁ ΑΝΤ-ΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Elagabalus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1652_R320 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΤΑΤΙΑΝΟV - *ΗΡ* - ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Two torches; on ground inbetween, modius with four ears of corn and a poppy.
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Persons

Sitter: Elagabal 🔍  

eponymous deity/heroes: Aurelius Tatianus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
15.98 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 449

Provenience: Fonds général 449

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1652, Paris 449

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 91, nr. 1652, pl. 92, pic. 1652  ❐

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. 264, nr. 364  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 18  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 91-92, nr. 1652-1655, pl. 92 (In E. Schönert-Geiss 2 ears.)  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 18 ❐

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cn coin 888, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_888 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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