cn coin 9173
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cn coin 9173

Connected to Type

CN Type 1517 🔍

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 ΒΙΖV-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Capaneus advancing left, wearing helmet, holding spear in right hand and big circular shield in left arm; right foot on rock; in background, ladder. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

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

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 5023

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia ?? Bizye [Philipp] Typ 93A

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 66, nr. 93.1  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 133, nr. 1557-1558 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 270-272, nr. 159-161 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 270-272, nr. 157-159, pl. 46-47 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 nr. 93 ❐

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cn coin 9173, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9173 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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