cn coin 9161
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cn coin 9161

Connected to Type

CN Type 1502 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖ-VΗ-ΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Apollo standing facing, head left, left leg crossed over right, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left hand over serpent coiling around omphalos at his feet to right. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
15.60 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 3997

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia Bizye [Philipp] 78A

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 64, nr. 68.1  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 128, nr. 1503-1504 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 260-262, nr. 92-99, 102-109 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 64, nr. 78 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 260-262, nr. 92-99, 102-109, pl. 41-42 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 128, nr. 1503-1504 ❐

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cn coin 9161, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9161 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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