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cn coin 985

Connected to Type

CN Type 8444 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1738_V206 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑVΡ · ϹΕV - ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ⠁ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Severus Alexander, left, wearing cuirass and plaudamentum; spear in hidden right hand; shield on his left shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1739_R394 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ · Μ · ΑVΡ · ΦΡΟΝΤ*ΩΝ*ΟϹ · ΚΑΙ · ΑΙΛ · ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝ/ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Emperor (Severus Alexander) in military attire riding right on horseback, wearing cuirass and fluttering paludamentum, holding transverse spear in right hand. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
37 mm
Weight
27.45 g
Axis
8
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1739, Hunter 31

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 104, nr. 1739.2  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 397, nr. 31  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 45  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 103-104, nr. 1739, pl. 100, pic. 1739 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 45 ❐

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cn coin 985, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_985 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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