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cn coin 950

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CN Type 8421 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1703_V180 🔍
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_1703_R365 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ* ΕΠΙ ΒΑᛈ - ΑΙΜΙ ᛈΕV*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
28 mm
Weight
10.92 g
Owner

Biblioteca Academiei Române, Cabinetul de numismatică, Bukarest, ro ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 25165

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1703, Buk. Bibl 156

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 99, nr. 1703.2  ❐

Iliescu et al., Catalogul monetelor grecesti. I. Thracia, Bucuresti, Bukarest nr. 156  ❐

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 950, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_950 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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