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cn coin 936

Connected to Type

CN Type 8415 🔍

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_1692_R356 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ᛈΩΤ*ΗΡ*ΙΧΟV - ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ*ΩΝ*
Design
Tyche standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left arm. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Soterichus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
11.73 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 462

Provenience: Fonds général 462

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1692, Paris 462

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 97, nr. 1692.1, pl. 95, pic. 1692/1  ❐

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. 386  ❐

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. 1692-1693, pl. 95 ❐

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

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cn coin 936, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_936 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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