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cn coin 958

Connected to Type

CN Type 8425 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1708_V185 🔍
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_1710_R371 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ · ΕΠΙ - ΒΑᛈ ΑΙΜΙ ᛈΕV*ΗΡ*ΟV
Design
Tyche standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left arm. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Aemilius Severus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
13.48 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1710, London 192

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 100, nr. 1710.2, pl. 97, pic. 1710/2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 105, nr. 96  ❐

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

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 100, nr. 1710, pl. 97, pic. 1710 ❐

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

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cn coin 958, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_958 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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