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cn coin 947

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CN Type 8421 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1700_V178 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕVΗ ΑΛΕ{Ζ}ΑΝΔΡΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1700_R362 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒV{Ζ}Α*ΝΤ*ΙΩΝ · ΕΠΙ ΒΑᛈ· ΑΙΜΙ ΣΕV*ΗΡ*ΟV
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: Aemilius Severus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 32 mm / Min: 30 mm
Weight
12.11 g
Axis
7
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1700, Hunter 33

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 98, nr. 1700, pl. 96, pic. 1700  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 20b  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 397, nr. 33  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 98, nr. 1700-1703, pl. 96, pic. 1700-1703 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 20b ❐

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cn coin 947, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_947 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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