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cn coin 939

Connected to Type

CN Type 8416 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

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_1694_R358 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ᛈΩΤΗΡΙ-ΧΟV ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ*
Design
Nike standing facing, head left, holding palm branch in left arm and wreath in right hand over altar surmounted by crested Corinthian helmet, left. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Soterichus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
14.50 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1694, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Collection

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 97, nr. 1694, pl. 95, pic. 1694  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 1, Cambridge 1923 nr. 4255, pl. 153, pic. 19  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 97, nr. 1694, pl. 95, pic. 1694 ❐

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cn coin 939, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_939 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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