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cn coin 9168

Connected to Type

CN Type 1510 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖVΗ//ΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles seated left on rock, holding club in outstreched right hand, resting left arm on rock; in front of him, stag standing right.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
12.57 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 214

Provenience: Fonds général 304

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 86A/2 214

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 65, nr. 86.2  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 133, nr. 1549-1550 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 270, nr. 150-153 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 65, nr. 86 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 270, nr. 150-153, pl. 46 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 133, nr. 1549-1550 ❐

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cn coin 9168, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9168 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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