cn coin 972
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cn coin 972

Connected to Type

CN Type 8432 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1723_V196 🔍
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_1722_R380 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΝΤΩ*ΝΕ*ΙΝΙΑ - ᛈΕΒΑᛈΤΑ // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ
Design
Agonistic table, right, surmounted by prize crown with one palm branch, between two purses, below, amphora.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Axis
12
Owner

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Neapel, it ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: F6370

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1723, Neapel F 6370

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 101, nr. 1723, pl. 99, pic. 1723  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 101, nr. 1722-1723, pl. 98-99 ❐

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cn coin 972, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_972 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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