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cn coin 940

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CN Type 8418 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1695_V173 🔍
Legend
Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕVΗ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1695_R359 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΩΤ*ΗΡ*ΙΧ-ΟV 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
31 mm
Weight
13.63 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 461

Provenience: Fonds général 461

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1695, Paris 461

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 98, nr. 1695, pl. 96, pic. 1695  ❐

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. 385  ❐

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. 98, nr. 1695-1696, pl. 96 ❐

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

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cn coin 940, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_940 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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