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cn coin 978

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CN Type 8437 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1732_V201 🔍
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_1732_R387 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΝΤΩ*ΝΕ*ΙΝΙΑ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ // ᛈΕΒΑᛈΤΑ
Design
Prize crown, containing two palm branches.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
16.70 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: 1732, London 194

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 102, nr. 1732.2, pl. 99, pic. 1732/2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 105, nr. 98  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 102, nr. 1732-1734, pl. 99 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 105, nr. 98 ❐

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cn coin 978, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_978 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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