cn coin 9204
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cn coin 9204

Connected to Type

CN Type 1556 🔍

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 ΒΙΖVΗΝ/ΩΝ
Design
Banquet scene; male figure reclining left on kline, placing his right hand on the left shoulder of a female figure seated to right and leaning on the left edge of the kline, which has a three-legged table under it to right and two ornated legs to left, right leg with a twisted band around; in the left background, a tree upon which hangs a cuirass and beneath which man stands facing, head right, in short chiton placing his right hand on amphora to left; in the right background, forepart of a horse advancing left, lifting left hoof; in upper central field, shield.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
39 mm
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: Brit. Mus. Bizya Philip 133A/3

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 72, nr. 133.3  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 134, nr. 1564 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 240, nr. 8-11 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 72, nr. 133 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 240, nr. 8-11, pl. 31 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 134, nr. 1564 ❐

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cn coin 9204, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9204 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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