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cn coin 935

Connected to Type

CN Type 8414 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1689_V172 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕΥΗ ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate head of Severus Alexander, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1691_R355 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΩΤ-*ΗΡ*Ι-ΧΟV ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*ΙΩΝ
Design
Artemis advancing left, wearing long garment, holding in right hand short torch upwards and in left hand short torch downwards.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Soterichus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 27 mm
Weight
12.51 g
Axis
6
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 460

Provenience: Fonds général 460

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1691, Paris 1691

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 97, nr. 1691, pl. 95, pic. 1691  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 nr. 135  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 267, nr. 384  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 19  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 97, nr. 1691, pl. 95, pic. 1691 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 19 ❐

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cn coin 935, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_935 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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