cn coin 8988
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cn coin 8988

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CN Type 1322 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 138-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Biz_168_V168 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and hair falling in long curls on neck and shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Biz_168_R168 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖV-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Bald Silenus standing left, holding cantharus in right hand and wine-skin in left hand.
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Metrology
Denomination
One and one half 🔍  
Material
Axis
7
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Hunter 168.3

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 168.3 

Literature

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 4546

Bernhart, Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen: numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos, 1949 p. 161, nr. 1386

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 25-28a

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 4546

Bernhart, Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen: numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos, 1949 p. 161, nr. 1386

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 168-169

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 25-28a

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cn coin 8988, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8988 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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