cn coin 9197
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cn coin 9197

Connected to Type

CN Type 1553 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟVΛ - ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖVΗΝ/ΩΝ
Design
Apollo, Asclepius and Hygieia; in the centre, nude Apollo standing facing, head left, left leg crossed over right, holding laurel-branch in right hand, left hand over serpent coiled around omphalos at his feet to right; at his feet to left, Telesphorus wearing hooded mantle; to left, Asclepius standing right, wearing long garment, holding serpent-staff in right hand, left arm on hip; to right, Hygieia standing left, feeding serpent held in right arm from patera in outstretched left hand; in the background, Tyche, enthroned right, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left arm, and nude Zeus, advancing left, hurling thunderbolt.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
38 mm
Weight
26.00 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: B.M. 8 Philippus 129A/2

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 71, nr. 129.2  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 129, nr. 1507 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 238, nr. 4 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 71, nr. 129 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 238, nr. 4, pl. 30 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 129, nr. 1507 ❐

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cn coin 9197, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9197 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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