cn coin 980
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cn coin 980

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CN Type 8437 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1734_V203 🔍
Legend
Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕVΗ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; with aegis on left shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1734_R389 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΝΤΩ*ΝΕ*ΙΝ-ΙΑ - ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ* // ϹΕΒΑϹΤΑ
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
18.53 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1734, WeberL 61, III

Citation

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

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 98, pic. 2584  ❐

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 980, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_980 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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