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cn coin 961

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CN Type 8426 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1713_V187 🔍
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: 29 mm / Min: 28 mm
Weight
12.53 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 465

Provenience: Fonds général 465

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1713, Paris 465

Citation

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

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 266, nr. 381  ❐

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 961, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_961 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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