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cn coin 8993

Connected to Type

CN Type 1325 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

138-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bearded male head (Zeus or Poseidon?), right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖVΗ-ΝΩ-Ν
Design
Nude Dionysus standing right, holding transverse thyrsus with left hand over left shoulder. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
One and one half 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
4.71 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 4995

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia Bizye 171.1

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 79, nr. 171.1  ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 79, nr. 171.1  ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 180, nr. 7-13, pl. 1  ❐

Literature

Heuchert, RPC Online nr. 9313 ❐

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. 9313 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 79, nr. 171 ❐

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cn coin 8993, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8993 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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