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cn coin 9291

Connected to Type

CN Type 435 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ ΩΤ ϹЄ//Β*ΗΡ*Α ϹЄΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹ-ΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Apollo standing facing, head left, wearing long garment, holding plectrum in outstretched right hand and lyre with left hand on a short column.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
13.08 g
Axis
1
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 216, 12. August 2009, Lot-Nr. 316

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4219, annot. Plektron von Varbanov als Lorbeerzweig gedeutet. ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 416, nr. 170, pl. 140, pic. 170 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 416, nr. 167-170, pl. 140, pic. 167-170 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4219, annot. Plektron von Varbanov fälschlicherweise als Lorbeerzweig gedeutet. ❐

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cn coin 9291, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9291 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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