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cn coin 9553

Connected to Type

CN Type 1792 🔍

Mint
Augusta Traiana 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

193-211 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑV Κ Λ ϹЄ Ϲ-ЄVΗΡΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Septimius Severus, right. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑVΓΟ-VϹΤΗϹ - ΤΡΑΙΑ//ΝΗϹ
Design
Closed city gate with straight lintel, flanked by two crenellated towers, third crenellated tower rising from center.
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Persons

Sitter: Septimius Severus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 17 mm
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SOFIA 156 178

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Augusta Traiana und Traianopolis, Berlin 1991 p. 81, nr. 178  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 87, nr. 962 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Augusta Traiana und Traianopolis, Berlin 1991 p. 81, 82, nr. 177-178, 183 (Schönert-Geiß reeds the legend of the revers of Nr. 178 differently. However, owning to the bad conservation of the coin, this reeding cannot be proved.)  ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 87, nr. 962-963 ❐

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cn coin 9553, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9553 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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