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cn coin 9224

Connected to Type

CN Type 1591 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
Triptolemos standing right in biga drawn by two winged serpents, wearing a cloak, holding seeds in fold of garment in left hand and raising right arm to sow the seeds; Earth reclining left on ground below the biga, with her right hand holding out her garment at her waist to receive the seeds, holding two ears of corn in her left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
20.09 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 176, 10. März 2009, Lot-Nr. 1540.

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 134, nr. 1565 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 134, nr. 1565 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 nr. 36-37 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 9224, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9224 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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