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cn coin 9252

Connected to Type

CN Type 1618 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-247 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹ
Design
Bare head of Philippus iunior, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖV-ΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Eros in attitude of Thanatos standing left, legs crossed, leaning on upturned lit torch set on pile of rocks.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus iunior 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
2.90 g
Owner

Regionalen Arheologičeski Muzej - Plovdiv, Plovdiv, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Plowdiw Philipp j. Bizye 158B/2

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 76, nr. 158.2  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 139, nr. 1604 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 290-294, nr. 25-57 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 76, nr. 158 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 141, nr. 12 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 290-294, nr. 25-57, pl. 56-58 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 138-139, nr. 1603-1604 ❐

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cn coin 9252, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9252 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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