cn coin 9174
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cn coin 9174

Connected to Type

CN Type 1518 🔍

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 ΒΙ-ΖV-Η-ΝΩ//Ν
Design
City gate with arched half-open door, flanked by two towers; to left, relief of the three Charites (or Nymphs?), to right, relief of Thracian rider; above, gallery of seven arches with statues inside; surmounted by figure standing right in quadriga; in front of which Nike(or Artemis?) advancing right; behind, a second statue.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
10.90 g
Axis
7
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia Philipp 7 94A

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 66, nr. 94.1  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 131, nr. 1519 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 274, nr. 167-174 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 66, nr. 94-95 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 274, nr. 167-174, pl. 48 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 131, nr. 1519 ❐

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cn coin 9174, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9174 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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