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cn coin 9179

Connected to Type

CN Type 11735 🔍

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 ΒΙΖ-V-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Serapis (Great God?) standing left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and cornucopia.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
14.25 g
Axis
9
Owner

Historisches Museum Basel, Basel, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1908.998.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Basel 23

Literature

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 67, nr. 102 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 272, nr. 162, pl. 47 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 133, nr. 1555 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235962 ❐

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cn coin 9179, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9179 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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