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cn coin 960

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CN Type 8426 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1712_V186 🔍
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_1711_R372 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒV-ΖΑ-*ΝΤ*ΙΩ-Ν // ΕΠΙ ᛈΕVΗ/ΡΟV
Design
Europa seated right, head left, halfnaked, on bull advancing left, head facing, leaning with right hand, holding with left hand veil fluttering curved over her head.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Aemilius Severus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 29 mm
Weight
12.40 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: 1712, London 190

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 100, nr. 1712, pl. 97, pic. 1712  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 105, nr. 95  ❐

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

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 100, nr. 1711-1713, pl. 97, pic. 1711-1713 ❐

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

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cn coin 960, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_960 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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